[clamav-users] Artificial Intelligence Based Anti-Virus

[Al Varnell]

On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 02:17 AM, crazy thinker wrote:
> @AI Varnell
> Does Clam AV provides Heuristics  signatures in their official db?

There's a heuristics engine that uses data from the .pdb and .sfp sections of the database to detect messages from selected financial institutions that appear to be phishing attempts.

Recently there have been a variety of additional signatures that contain "Heuristic" in the infection name, but it isn't clear why they are so labeled.

> I heard
> that  clamAV uses md5, sha1,sha256 based virus signatures in their
> database?

Among others. If you are interested in knowing about all the other types you should read signatures.pdf 
<https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-devel/blob/master/docs/signatures.pdf>.

-Al-

> On 5 May 2017 at 14:31, Al Varnell <alvarnell at mac.com> wrote:
>> All of the "Heuristics" signatures could be considered AI.
>> 
>> -Al-
>> 
>> On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 01:37 AM, crazy thinker wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi ClamAV Developers, Users,
>>> 
>>> I have heard that Artificial Intellgience Based Anti-Virus provides more
>>> security than others.. is it really true? is there any AI based free
>>> Desktop AV? did  ClamAV uses AI techniques to threat prevention and
>>> detection?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Crazy Thinker Inc
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