Why My avast…
Please look picture…
Please read:
Spring cleaning in our virus database
http://blog.avast.com/2010/09/06/spring-cleaning-in-our-virus-database
I really can’t see the point in monitoring these figures it is a pointless exercise, when the wording below the figures is far more important. Doing more with less signatures is also I would suggest more efficient/faster.
This was discussed a lot in the past…
- There are a marketing issue involved. Companies estimate the number of viruses by high.
- There are different counts possible: variants, etc.
- There is not an international rule for virus naming, so same virus could be consider one or more by other company.
- Scanning settings are very important.
- Active viruses (ITW) are really more important then the whole number.
- Generic signatures and heuristic detections cannot be really counted as ‘virus detection’.
Well, etc. etc.
Trust avast!