Re: [clamav-users] Question about .cvd files

2017-04-13 Thread Al Varnell
Modifying those databases will invalidate their code signing so you would also have to modify the scanning software to ignore security, which would be difficult at best and obviously not a good idea. You would also have to filter out all the non-windows signatures every time there is an update

Re: [clamav-users] Question about .cvd files

2017-04-12 Thread crazy thinker
Hi All, I would like to install ClamAV for Windows Desktop Operating System. I know that ClamAV Official Database (.cvd files) contains all kinds of malware in terms of platform specific (Linux,UNIX,Unix Like) in single file(s)(daily.cvd ,main.cvd) and i heard that unix malware can't effect windo

Re: [clamav-users] Question about .cvd files

2017-04-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
The ClamAV product is designed to be used for real time detection with mail transport agents and to respond on detection. These mail transport agents are capable of delivering malware that will run on any architecture. In a perfect world everyone that runs an MTA would test outbound mail for mal

Re: [clamav-users] Question about .cvd files

2017-04-12 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
1. bytecode.cvd contains AV signatures written in our bytecode language. This allows us to have very advanced processing of files for detection. 2. Malware may not be specific to one OS. Or malware may be copied from OS to OS. 3. I don’t think you’d wan to do this, based upon what I just sai

[clamav-users] Question about .cvd files

2017-04-12 Thread crazy thinker
Hi ClamAV Developer, users I have below Questions on ClamAV Virus Database 1.what information bytecode.cvd contatins? and how it is useful in malware detection? 2.Why not ClamAV release virus databse in terms of platform specific like Windows,Linux,Mac OS X,Androind,BSD etc? is there any logic