I have a subscription to Norton's anti-virus application and keep it up to date, also Spyware Doctor. Both programs report my Win XP system clean. As a double check I ran clamscan on my XP partition, and got the following results:
-------------------------------------- Scan started: Sat Nov 5 21:12:28 2005 /mnt/sda1/Documents and Settings/Jim Ford/Local Settings/Temp/ace6E.tmp: Broken.Executable FOUND /mnt/sda1/Documents and Settings/Jim Ford/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5/4BU72UJQ/enavweb[1].cab: Trojan.Aavirus FOUND /mnt/sda1/pagefile.sys: Exploit.HTML.MHTRedir-8 FOUND /mnt/sda1/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec Shared/SymcData/idsdefs/20051010.043/sigs.dat: Exploit.W32.CSS FOUND /mnt/sda1/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec Shared/SymcData/idsdefs/BinHub/sigs.dat: Exploit.W32.CSS FOUND /mnt/sda1/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec Shared/VirusDefs/20051026.007/VIRSCAN9.DAT: Trojan.Aavirus FOUND /mnt/sda1/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec Shared/VirusDefs/20051102.019/VIRSCAN9.DAT: Trojan.Aavirus FOUND /mnt/sda1/Program Files/Gigabyte/Gigabyte Windows Utility Manager/bios/MARKFUN.A64: Broken.Executable FOUND /mnt/sda1/Program Files/Gigabyte/Gigabyte Windows Utility Manager/etdrv.A64: Broken.Executable FOUND /mnt/sda1/Program Files/Gigabyte/Gigabyte Windows Utility Manager/MARKFUN.A64: Broken.Executable FOUND /mnt/sda1/WINDOWS/NDNuninstall6_38.exe: Adware.NewDotNet.B FOUND /mnt/sda1/WINDOWS/OPTIONS/CABS/RTLNIC64.SYS: Broken.Executable FOUND -- summary -- Known viruses: 40930 Engine version: 0.86.2 Scanned directories: 3078 Scanned files: 36352 Infected files: 12 Data scanned: 7925.75 MB Time: 2215.679 sec (36 m 55 s) Ignoring the broken executables, It shows 6 viruses/trojans and 1 adware. Does this mean that Norton is cr*p, because it missed them, or is clamscan giving false +ves? Jim Ford _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-win32
