[clamav-users] Old virus databases?

Paul Kosinski clamav-users at iment.com
Fri Jan 6 02:03:19 UTC 2017


To make back-out easier, I rarely purge daily.cvd and main.cvd, but just
rename the old ones with a date suffix, e.g., "daily.cvd.150416-0235".
I could easily provide a few from the past 1.5 years, and might be
able to find even older ones (with the associated main.cvd).


On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 23:13:37 +0000
"Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler at cisco.com> wrote:

> I’d have to check, I am not sure we retain those.  I don’t think they
> are available publicly anywhere either.
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> Joel Esler | Talos: Manager |
> jesler at cisco.com<mailto:jesler at cisco.com>
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> On Jan 5, 2017, at 1:39 PM, Michael Howard
> <mhoward at cra.com<mailto:mhoward at cra.com>> wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> The ClamAV download page contains a number of past stable releases of
> the software. The most recent virus database files (.cvd) are also
> available to download manually.
> 
> Is it also possible to obtain old versions of the .cvd files? I would
> like to experiment with ClamAV as it existed on certain dates from
> the past.
> 
> Thanks,
> -MIchael

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