full-disclosure - Show me the Virrii!

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From: simon at ostengaard.dk (Simon Østengaard)
Subject: Show me the Virrii!

Hi Richard

Richard Maudsley wrote:

> How do big Anti-Virus companies get their hands on new viruses, and 
> how can I?

Have a look at the clam a-v scanner http://clamav.elektrapro.com/ . It 
is an open source community based scanner, but it still detects quit a 
few vira. They build their vira db on reports from their user community. 
May be you can use their a-v database.

-- 
Simon ?stengaard
LPIC-2