[clamav-users] linux.cvd database question

[Andy Ragusa (aragusa)]

The linux.cvd is kept up to date with linux-specific signatures, but obviously doesn't have the coverage that the rest of the signature databases have.

Thanks,
Andy
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Subject: [clamav-users] linux.cvd database question

Hi, question re the linux.cvd database. Our company has a number of Linux laptops running with 8 gigs of memory. We need AV for compliance reasons, and would like to use ClamAV, but the 1.2G memory footprint is a bit much, so we're looking at possibly using just the linux.cvd database which is considerably smaller.

My question is how often is that linux.cvd updated and does it have latest virus signatures? Using the sigtool it appears that it's updated from the previous day. But I'm not clear on its relationship to the daily.cvd or main databases. What percentage of daily.cvd are linux/unix based viruses?

Thanks!

Jimmy
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