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CVD (ClamAV Virus Database) is a digitally signed tarball file that
contains one or more databases. You can find some useful information in the
ASCII header of the file. It's a 512 bytes long string with the following
colon separated fields:
ClamAV-VDB:build time:version:number of signatures:functionality
level required:MD5 checksum:digital signature:builder name
and can be easily parsed by scripts or with sigtool -info.
There are two CVD databases in ClamAV: main.cvd and daily.cvd
for a daily updates. You can use sigtool to unpack a CVD file.
Tomasz Kojm
2003-11-11