Re: ClamAV Antivirus can't detect trojan horses?

Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via clamav-users <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:14:08 +0000
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On Wednesday, December 24th, 2025 at 12:58 AM, Michael Orlitzky via clamav-users <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 2025-12-23 16:06:13, Newcomer01 via clamav-users wrote:
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> > Yes, open the link and see the really old dates of this project, since 7.2.5 of March '21 no newer version was delivered and in the master tree (files for this project) the last changes was before 4-6 years: https://github.com/extremeshok/clamav-unofficial-sigs
> > I'm personally not sure if this project is in active developing anymore ...
> > 
> > On other hand, fangfrisch is much more up to date, last version 1.9.2 of April '25 and in the master tree the last changes was before 6-11 months: https://github.com/rseichter/fangfrisch and the developer promote always here his new version and what is changed or maybe what technical problems he have / had
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> The unofficial-sigs script also does a lot of crazy stuff that could
> lead to security issues if you're not careful. These days -- if you
> don't mind tracking down the URLs yourself -- you can just use
> freshclam to download the additional sigs... but if you have to choose
> between the two, fangfrisch is the better bet.

Noted with thanks.

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individuals Singapore
GIMP = Government-Induced Medical Problems
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