[clamav-users] detection of really old viruses?

[Joel Esler (jesler)]

Naresh,

Please do not reply to every thread on the ClamAV list asking for help.  

Have you looked at the documentation page on CLamAV.net <http://clamav.net/>?

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Joel Esler
Open Source Manager
Threat Intelligence Team Lead
Talos

> On Dec 31, 2014, at 12:36 AM, naresh hcu <nareshhcu18 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Respected Sir/Madam,
> 
> Could you  tell me  step-wise how to install stable version 0.98.5 from
> source code in ubuntu???
> 
> ---------------
> 
> 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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