On Thursday, 14 Feb 2013, in preparation for the coming ClamAV 0.98 release, a new database was scheduled to be made available to users. We had a set of issues while performing this upgrade, and we feel that it is appropriate to let our users and mirror providers know what happened, what has done to fix the issues, and what is being done to prevent these issues from happening again.

So first, What Happened?

1. 14 Feb (Read more...)

Introduction

Microsoft introduced digitally signing PE object files (authenticode) in Windows 98. Hardware drivers eligible for the Windows Logo Program are required to contain a valid authenticode signature. Since then, Microsoft has expanded the program to executable object files (EXEs) and DLLs.

Microsoft has its own public key infrastructure (PKI). There are four trusted root certificate authorities: two by Microsoft, Thawte, and Verisign. Microsoft’s own executables for Windows are signed.

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Back in February, Joel Esler who is our Open Source Community Manager, explained how you could contribute rules to Snort. We just wanted to let you know that the VRT is seeking and accepting your contribution on the ClamAV side as well.

One of the best features of ClamAV is the openness of the signatures database. There are very few anti-malware products out there that will allow you see exactly how a signature is constructed and let you use your (Read more...)

Everyone,

This is to let everyone know that due to some scheduled maintenance, no updates for ClamAV’s signature set will be published between the End of Day Eastern Standard Time on Thursday through Friday morning.

Normal updates and operation should resume Friday morning.

Thank you.

For someone just getting started with ClamAV, I noticed this easy to read and understand blog post here.  If you know someone who is just getting started with ClamAV, or you yourself came to this blog looking to get started.  Check that blog post out!