Do you expect these further reductions to be frequent or would it be practical to make the retired signatures available as an "extra" database - essentially a third party database - available for those who do have the extra space necessary ?
We are working on a way to provide retired signatures in a sustainable manner and will update the community when we are ready to implement a solution. At this time, it is our intention is to add any signatures retired in the future to that database. Brendan ________________________________ From: clamav-users <[email protected]> on behalf of Andrew C Aitchison via clamav-users <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2025 3:16 PM To: Brendan Bell (brebell) via clamav-users <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew C Aitchison <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV Signature Retirement Announcement On Wed, 19 Nov 2025, Brendan Bell (brebell) via clamav-users wrote: > Can open-source users access the signatures that have been retired > from main.cvd? > We intend to make the retired signatures available at a later date > for researchers and corner cases > > Is this an ongoing process? > Cisco Talos will continue to curate the signature set and may retire > signatures as they lose relevance to today’s security landscape. Do you expect these futher reductions to be frequent or would it be practical to make the retired signatures available as an "extra" database - essentially a third party database - available for those who do have the extra space necessary ? -- Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK [email protected] _______________________________________________ Manage your clamav-users mailing list subscription / unsubscribe: https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-documentation https://docs.clamav.net/#mailing-lists-and-chat
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