[clamav-users] detection of really old viruses?

[naresh hcu]

Respected Sir/Madam,

Could you  tell me  step-wise how to install stable version 0.98.5 from
source code in ubuntu???

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Naresh

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Marcel Giannelia <info at skeena.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:53:58 -0800
> Al Varnell <alvarnell at mac.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > AFAIK, definitions exist forever unless they have been found to cause
> > False Positives.
> >
> > You can normally find the date a definition was added by searching
> > the clamav-virusdb archive:
> > <http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-virusdb.en.html>
>
> Confirmed;
>
> e.g. searching that list for "CIH" (a.k.a. "Chernobyl", from about 1998
> or 99) shows "W95.CIH-II.882" and some variants were added to the defs
> in about 2003.
>
> sigtool -l of the current main.cvd shows that these definitions are
> still present in current.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~Felix.
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