Sean Pinegar wrote: > 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. Bit late joining this... but submit the file to one of these sites... and you'll hopefully get a clearer picture... maybe ;)
http://www.virustotal.com/ http://virusscan.jotti.org/ http://scanner.virus.org/ They scan a single file with various anti-virus software and give you a result. As no single virus scanner gives you 100% protection on every malware type, right from 0 hour... the above services can be useful. Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
