Today, 27th January 2009, ClamAV’s signature team investigated and identified Trojan.Agent-70954, the 500,000th entry in its database. Well done to all the team for working so hard to produce a quality database.
From time to time we are asked to keep the size of the database down by trimming old signatures; but, as the statistics-gathering program has shown, old viruses never die. SomeFool (a.k.a Netsky) is still alive and kicking 5 years after the ClamAV team spotted the first variants! Today two variants of that virus are in the top 10 most active malware amongst our users that send us statistics.