I think he might mean 'clean up a machine which is wormed/rooted.' The answer, of course, is 'reformat, reinstall from original media, and restore known good backups.'
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Antony Stone Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 6:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Clean Viruses? On Monday 03 November 2003 10:42 pm, Mark wrote: > Cleaning is one of the most needed functions I think. Please can you explain why you think this? I agree that ten years ago it was worthwhile removing the bootsector viruses from floppies, or some of the .exe trojans which would add themselves to executables, but these days it seems to me that if you receive a virus, that is all you receive, and there is nothing left if you "clean" it. What viruses do you currently receive which can be cleaned from a file which is useful afterwards? Regards, Antony. -- If books were designed by Microsoft, the Anarchist's Cookbook would explode when you read it. - Mark W Schumann Please reply to the list; please don't CC me. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
