Statistics about our antivirus signatures for ClamAV

How effective are our antivirus signatures for ClamAV?

Every day thousands of malwares are circulating on the Internet.
SecuriteInfo.com actively fights against this malware for a safer Internet.

Among the weapons against malware that we provide to our customers, we have email filtering, free DNS, but also complementary antivirus signatures for ClamAV..
ClamAV is Cisco's open source antivirus software, which runs on all Linux and Unix platforms, but also has ports for Windows (ClamAV and ClamWin) and Mac (ClamXAV).

Our antivirus signatures are naturally added to the official ClamAV signatures. As a result, ClamAV's malware detection is much better, making ClamAV the best Linux antivirus in the world.

Our antivirus signatures must therefore be as effective as possible in order to provide the best possible protection for the Internet.

It is therefore legitimate to ask a few questions:

• How many signatures are published by SecuriteInfo.com?
• How many signatures are generic?
• How many malwares are detected by the generic signatures?
• How many malwares are detected with all SecuriteInfo.com signatures?

In the interest of transparency we publish the following figures on a daily basis:

• Update date: Tue May 26 06:15:32 CEST 2026
• Number of non-generic antivirus signatures: 4865233
• Number of generic antivirus signatures: 105140
• Number of total antivirus signatures: 4970373
• Number of malware detected by generic signatures: 8067561
• Each generic signature detects an average of 76 malwares
• Total number of malware detected by our signatures : 12932794

Some important remarks

• The statistics published here do not take into account the spam detection signatures, which are delivered with the SecuriteInfo.com signatures. These statistics only concern malwares.
• The signatures published by SecuriteInfo.com are complementary to the official ClamAV signatures. This means that when a malware is detected by the official ClamAV signatures, it is removed from the SecuriteInfo.com signatures. There are no duplicate signatures between the official ClamAV signatures and the SecuriteInfo.com signatures.
• These statistics change every day, and are therefore published daily.

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