Discussion about reduction in size of AV database

The petition is to reduce the AV database by adding generic signatures and thus being able to remove the redundant ones.

Thank you for the clarification.
I was unaware this was the intention.

Look forward to a better and stronger comodo av. :-TU

May I ask when is Comodo is going to get their bare bloody bum out of bed are start switching over to generic signatures ??? ??? ??? ???

No wonder they sleep in bed all bloody day & night…24/7

Consider yourself warned Speedy…

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Well in a month will rise up to 20 mil. Nice :-TU

We had no Unclassified Malware signatures over weekend.
Can we know the reason why?
???

Maybe some Comodo staff was having break on the weekend, and I’m sure they know what their doing when they start collecting more Unclassified Malware signatures :a0

They are 95% coming from automated analysis systems so not human (some yes but MAINLY not).
This is not the problem IMO.

BTW : today UnclassifiedMalware : 1

The 1 and only!
;D :smiley: ;D

please try to reduce the large size of signature data base file and make the data base file size less.

It was about time… 88) ;D

Finally someone was drag out of bed for a change :smiley:

Latest Database Version: 16355
Release Date (all times GMT): 31-May-2013 20:59:58
Number of Definitions Added Today: 35455
Total Definitions: 19709993

Looks like we’re getting very close to the BIG 20 soon :wink:

Hopefully they will then start to reduce using generic’s to get closer to the SMALL 10 ;D

It may sound coool to hit the BIG 20, but in practice this not as good as it sounds, there needs to be a balance within the database of detecting a single piece of malware with one signature, and using something like a generic signature to detect variants or families of malware :-TU

To explain it more simplle and easy as I can, a single signature may only catch a single piece of malware, but has lower false positive potential, with generic signatures you can catch variants or families so will catch more malware with a single signature, but at the cost of increased false positives, there for need a balance, also in practice generics tend to increase difficulty of fixing a false positive, so Comodo needs to find a good balance :slight_smile:

Just like to thank the devs and the guys at Comodo’s av lab for doing an awesome job :-TU

Totally agree with you, but I’m afraid will take some time till we see this balance implemented. So is a long shot :-\

I think they are doing a great job, the av is coming along nicely, so is the database and other technologies Comodo has been working on over the years, comparing the first av (v3 ?) to the one in v6 is like chalk and cheese, and is nice to see each version improve, has been a wonderful ride to take with Comodo 8)

Is good to see every element of CIS not just hold its own, but even beat the competition, including the av part too :slight_smile:

I hope to see Daisy working hard soon to reduce the database size and improve detection further with generic signatures too ;D

Here I’m with you :slight_smile:
The av is stronger then v3, and with every release is getting better, as for generic let’s hope :a0

Words from the prophet… :smiley:

Is a cleanup on the horizon ???