[clamav-users] Add virus databases and signatures from third-party vendors

[Theodore Alcapotaxis]

--- alvarnell at mac.com wrote:

>From: Al Varnell <alvarnell at mac.com>
>To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
>Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Add virus databases and signatures from third-party vendors
>Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:58:15 -0800
>
>I can’t imagine why the competition would ever be willing to share their signature databases with >anybody.

It's industry practice that a third-party vendor, e.g. Symantec, discovers a new virus, it has to share it with other vendors such as Eset, Kapersky, McAfee...

>Why would a user invest in a commercial A-V software package if they could get the same scanning >protection for free?

I disagree. Scan engines differ by vendor. Annually at ZDnet there's a rundown of which antivirus and malware software offers the best protection such as the ability to detect and clean the most number of viruses, trojans and malware, the fastest scan, etc.

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