On Fri, March 2, 2007 11:25 am, Sean Pinegar said: > > I trusted clamav for a long time but ran across an interesting problem > today. I received an e-mail from a friend that included a powerpoint. I > opened the powerpoint in linux and wine flagged it as a virus (not sure > how wine knew there was a virus...can anyone enlighten me on that?). I > scanned it with clamav and it said the file was ok. I scanned it with > norton and it came up as being infected. I updated clamAV and tried > again, same results..the file was ok. I was just curious if anyone else > has ran into this type of problem? I dont want to ditch clamAV but i have > to do whats best for the business.
No virus checker can find all viruses, all the time, and any may have false positives from time to time. If you believe there really is a virus in that file, I would suggest you submit it to the ClamAV team so they can add it to their database. There will be times ClamAV finds a virus Norton cannot, and vice-versa. On the average, ClamAV seems to be the finder more often than not. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
