Thanks for Reply. How many Heuristic Scan Engines ClamAV using Now? what are extensions of db files used by ClamAV Heurisitci Engine? Can I Increase Heuristic Scan Engine Count ?
On 9 May 2017 at 12:21, Al Varnell <[email protected]> wrote: > I already answered most of these questions before and after reading "My > Understanding" which is totally wrong, it's obvious you have not read the > signature.pdf documentation closely enough to understand an of this. > > The way you have chosen to classify signatures is completely wrong, which > means the questions you've asked don't make any sense. All signatures in > the database are static in that they only change when replaced by a more > accurate signature. There is nothing dynamic about any of them. > > The signature based scanner uses both fixed and variable length signatures. > > As I told you before, the heuristics based scanner only checks a limited > list of financial institutions for phishing attempts. That only represents > a tiny fraction of what could be considered behavior based malware > detection. And the database is used to define what financial institutions > are included as well as the ability to whitelist certain behaviors that are > known to not be a threat. > > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 10:49 PM, crazy thinker wrote: > > > > Hi ClamAV Developers,Users > > > > As per My Understnading , Virus Signatures are Classified into two types > > > > 1.Static Virus Signatures(short/fixed length virus signatures) > > 2.Dynamic Virus Signatures(long length Signatures with Regular > Expression) > > > > So I guess, ClamAV performing both Signature Based Scanning and > Heuristic > > Based Scanning for Malware Detection Process > > > > Please find below questions that in my mind > > > > 1.Does Signature Based Scanner uses only Static Signatures (not Dynamic > > Signatures) ? > > 2.Does Heuristic Scanner uses only Dynamic Signatures for Malware > > Detection? > > 3. If Herusitc Scanner uses Behaviour Based Approach, why Heuristic > > Scanner needs Virus Database? > > 4.To implement Efficient AV Scanner, Can I go with Heuristic Scanning > > Approach and Excluding Signature Based Scanning Approach? > > > > I would like to get help/suggestions from you guys... > > > > > > Kindly waiting for your reply!!!! > > > > > > Thanks, > > Crazy Thinker, Inc > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > > -Al- > -- > Al Varnell > Mountain View, CA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clamav-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
