julevine 0 Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 i noticed that you guys are adding new Emsisoft engine signature files like crazy mostly 1 file ever other day you guy must have enough files to cover all malware families and variants it gone up so much in file numbers here is stats first time i started tracking numbers was on march 24 the number of signature files was at 477 files now it at 509 it gone up alot suddenly please consolidate signatures so there is less files and less memory usage thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GT500 853 Posted May 1, 2013 Report Share Posted May 1, 2013 you guy must have enough files to cover all malware families and variants I wish that was the case. We'd never have to worry about malware again. The problem is that new malware is released constantly, and our research team has to constantly add new things to the database. Heuristics are used to reduce the number of new signatures, but when there are thousands of new malicious files found every day it is impossible to cover all future variants of every infection with heuristics, and of course even if it was new types of malware would still need to be handled by new signatures. Of course, that doesn't mean that the database cannot be periodically cleaned up, and this is something that our research team has done several times since Emsisoft Anti-Malware 7 was released (note that Emsisoft Emergency Kit shares the same database with Emsisoft Anti-Malware), and I am sure that our research team will continue to do it when they feel it is needed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
julevine 0 Posted May 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2013 i think you misunderstood me i was talking about the numbers of .sig files ( just files) i see one .sig file contains sigs for trojans/worms spyware/traces why arent you guys just added definitions to existing files instead of adding more Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GT500 853 Posted May 4, 2013 Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 If we were to combine all of the database updates into a single file client-side, then it would use a lot of CPU time during the update process. It could potentially cause performance issues on peoples' computers every hour or two throughout the day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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