[clamav-users] Bad detection rate

[Joel Esler (jesler)]

> On Jun 25, 2014, at 0:17, "Al Varnell" <alvarnell at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> The signature team has always been overwhelmed by the number of new samples it receives every day and even though the team is bigger today, so is the input.

Right.  We have several people working on malware full time. But we receive well over 650,000 samples a day. We build and ship all this stuff for free.  We love it when the community contributes.  It's for the benefit of all. 

> They established a third party signature contribution system a few months ago and I’m sure part of the reason is to try to reduce what is apparently a growing backlog of samples which require manual signature writing.  If those with the ability to write quality signatures and contribute them to this project can do so, we will all benefit from this.  I don’t blame the team for trying to promote this new means of community contributions.

Thank you Al.  Building a community to solve a problem is important.  That's what this whole "open source" thing is supposed to be about. It's not just that the software is free, it's so that everyone can participate. 

> It would appear that Steve is in a unique position here, in that he has his own UNOFFICIAL signature databases to contribute as well as the apparent skills to write them on his own.  Obviously there is a much larger user base for official set so contributions there would be of broader benefit, yet he runs his own services to the community.  Something he’ll need to consider and decide on his own.

We'd love it if Steve wanted to do it.  I've never reached out to him individually, but is be glad to have the conversation!

Joel