On 27/03/2011 5.41, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> I am thinking of using linux live rescue cd containing clamav to scan
> vista partition. I came across a post which doesn't recommend this as
> it could produce a lot of false positives. Is this true?
>
why?
perhaps you should scan in report mode only
clamscan -ri /root/scan.log /path/to/win
if you get false positive it's a good idea to report them to:
http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/sendvirus/
regards
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