Where do I get a list of all known viruses signatures?

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Zac Brown picture Zac Brown · Apr 27, 2010 · Viewed 21.9k times · Source

I have written some antivirus software in Python, but am unable to find virus signatures. The software works by dumping each file on the hard disk to hex, thus getting the hex signature. Where do i get signatures for all the known viruses?

Answer

nosklo picture nosklo · Apr 27, 2010

There's Clamav, the open source GPL anti-virus. You can read its source code to see how it implements heuristics and other stuff. It's written in C, though.

You can download a virus database there as well. They're free and updated frequently.

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