On 3/2/07 8:25 AM, "Sean Pinegar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. 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.

Depending on what your user population is, it is quite possible that a large
fraction of them run Norton on their machines.  So their overall protection
is better if you *don't* run Norton, but something else.  (Adjust for what
your user population actually does.)

  --John


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