Like the title says, the number of virus definitions with each definitions update seems to only decrease. I've brought this up before and googled it before, and the response is usually something along the lines of the number of definitions going down just means that there is consolidation or optimization in signatures, as a signature can identity hundreds or thousands of different samples.
Still, over the last month or so I have noticed the number of definitions almost always going down and almost never going up, and I would imagine (maybe incorrectly) that occasionally they would at least go up and there'd be something of an ebb & flow.
Has anyone else noticed this? I know people don't just check their virus definitions number every day, but I don't know: maybe people can look at the About section and show the number of definitions along with the virus definitions version? Mine is currently 24,689,028 under version 230406-2.