Re: [Clamav-users] Signature dups

2009-07-02 Thread Luca Gibelli
Hello Tom, I like having a central DB. In fact I think the central DB should be queryable (eg submit signatures and get feedback if they are already superceded but other detections) I don't think this is technically feasible: there is no easy way to say whether a particular signature is

[Clamav-users] Signature dups

2009-06-30 Thread Tom Shaw
Does freshclam or clam on load/reload look for and remove dup signatures? Tom ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] Signature dups

2009-06-30 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:28:36 -0400 Tom Shaw ts...@oitc.com wrote: Does freshclam or clam on load/reload look for and remove dup signatures? No, it doesn't. This is up to the database maintainers to avoid duplicates. -- oo. Tomasz Kojm tk...@clamav.net (\/)\.

Re: [Clamav-users] Signature dups

2009-06-30 Thread Bill Landry
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:28:36 -0400 Tom Shaw ts...@oitc.com wrote: Does freshclam or clam on load/reload look for and remove dup signatures? No, it doesn't. This is up to the database maintainers to avoid duplicates. So if, for example, the following signature:

Re: [Clamav-users] Signature dups

2009-06-30 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:59:18 -0700 Bill Landry b...@inetmsg.com wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:28:36 -0400 Tom Shaw ts...@oitc.com wrote: Does freshclam or clam on load/reload look for and remove dup signatures? No, it doesn't. This is up to the database maintainers to avoid

Re: [Clamav-users] Signature dups

2009-06-30 Thread Bill Landry
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:59:18 -0700 Bill Landry b...@inetmsg.com wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:28:36 -0400 Tom Shaw ts...@oitc.com wrote: Does freshclam or clam on load/reload look for and remove dup signatures? No, it doesn't. This is up to the database maintainers to avoid

Re: [Clamav-users] Signature dups

2009-06-30 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:26:25 -0700 Bill Landry b...@inetmsg.com wrote: So if I were to include a signature in my 3rd party database, and then a few days later ClamAV adds the same signature to the official signature database, that is not your problem, but rather my problem? Seems like if you

Re: [Clamav-users] Signature dups

2009-06-30 Thread Tom Shaw
At 11:05 PM +0200 6/30/09, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:26:25 -0700 Bill Landry b...@inetmsg.com wrote: So if I were to include a signature in my 3rd party database, and then a few days later ClamAV adds the same signature to the official signature database, that is not your

Re: [Clamav-users] Signature dups

2009-06-30 Thread Bill Landry
Tomasz, thanks for your detailed response. I'll follow-up off-list with some of the other sig writers and see what their thoughts are on bug #781. Best regards, Bill On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:26:25 -0700 Bill Landry b...@inetmsg.com wrote: So if I were to include a signature in my 3rd party