On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:38:49AM +0200, BogusÅaw Brandys wrote: > Right.Put ClamAV on front and commercial scanner on back ;-) > ClamAV do not recognize many polymorphic malwares, but today there are > not so many such malwares ;-)
Too right - that describes exactly how Qmail-Scanner utilizes ClamAV. I find that in excess of 99% of viruses/trojans/spyware-apps are blocked by ClamAV before the next (commercial) AV gets a go at it (and obviously finds something). In fact, there's several spyware-type "viruses" that ClamAV catches that several big-name AVs still don't catch... (I think that may be on purpose: note that some commercial AVs appear to want to differentiate between anti-virus and anti-spyware - as if some how the latter was different...) ...i.e. when I put the commercial one in front of ClamAV - <99% are caught by the commercial one... -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
