What good is it? It detects viruses! I'd say thats pretty good.
-Jim
> Ok, let me get this right. Clamav cannot clean? What good is it?
>
>
> Noel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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>> At 03:03 PM 1/6/2005, Thalador Du'Fosnee wrote:
>>>It is not deleting the messag
>
> Ok, let me get this right. Clamav cannot clean? What good is it?
I guess I wonder how much I trust a piece of software to decide what the
pre-infected package looked like. I guess it would be a good trick for it to
know every combination of every virus and every infected attachment that can
b
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:12:02AM +, Thalador Du'Fosnee wrote:
> Ok, let me get this right. Clamav cannot clean? What good is it?
>
"Cleaning" of viruses is a marketing ploy.
Very few viruses in recent years "infect" files, they overwrite the
good data in the file with their own code. Ther
Noel Jones wrote:
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:12:02AM +, Thalador Du'Fosnee wrote:
Ok, let me get this right. Clamav cannot clean? What good is it?
"Cleaning" of viruses is a marketing ploy.
Very few viruses in recent years "infect" files, they overwrite the
good data in the file with th
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 01:12:02 + (UTC)
"Thalador Du'Fosnee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, let me get this right. Clamav cannot clean? What good is it?
It sounds like you are implying that you want to receive mail that
contains a virus. What good is that? I want nothing to do with
infected m
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6-Янв-2005 20:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Maul) wrote to "ClamAV users ML"
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>> Ok, let me get this right. Clamav cannot clean? What good is it?
JM> What good is it? It detects viruses! I'd say thats pretty good.
1. When (I hope, not "if") disinfection will be implemented?
2. How handled vir
On Friday 07 Jan 2005 17:30, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
> 1. When (I hope, not "if") disinfection will be implemented?
http://www.clamav.net/faq.htm, answer 26.
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* Nigel Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050107 10:46]:
> On Friday 07 Jan 2005 17:30, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
>
> > 1. When (I hope, not "if") disinfection will be implemented?
>
> http://www.clamav.net/faq.htm, answer 26.
For records it is,
http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
i.e. faq.html and not faq.
Arkady V.Belousov wrote the following on 01/07/2005 06:30 PM :
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6-Янв-2005 20:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Maul) wrote to "ClamAV users ML"
:
Ok, let me get this right. Clamav cannot clean? What good is it?
JM> What good is it? It detects viruses! I'd say thats pretty good.
1. When (I h
Hi!
6-Янв-2005 21:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Noel Jones) wrote to
clamav-users@lists.clamav.net:
NJ> "Cleaning" of viruses is a marketing ploy.
Not agreed. We use antiviruses from middle of 80th, and they save us
many programs, which else be losted...
NJ> after "cleaning" but a corrupted file.
Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
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6-Янв-2005 20:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Maul) wrote to "ClamAV users ML"
:
Ok, let me get this right. Clamav cannot clean? What good is it?
JM> What good is it? It detects viruses! I'd say thats pretty good.
1. When (I hope, not "if") disinfection will be implemented
Hi!
7-Янв-2005 13:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Maul) wrote to ClamAV users ML
:
JM> make it into a users mailbox. ClamAV is not intended to be run after
JM> the fact on an already infected machine.
JM> I really dont see what the issue is here. You appear to be in a rare
JM> situation
Infecte
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 22:22:56 +0300 (MSK) in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Arkady V.Belousov"
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> This is only one example, that there is exists ways outside
> internet.
Those alternatives have been out-evolved in the main
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On 2005-01-07 22:22:56 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
> 7-???-2005 13:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Maul) wrote to ClamAV users ML
> :
>
> JM> make it into a users mailbox. ClamAV is not intended to be run after
> JM> the fact on an already infected machine.
> JM> I really dont see what the issue is
Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
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7-Янв-2005 13:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Maul) wrote to ClamAV users ML
:
JM> make it into a users mailbox. ClamAV is not intended to be run after
JM> the fact on an already infected machine.
JM> I really dont see what the issue is here. You appear to be in a rare
JM>
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 03:38:41PM -0500, Jim Maul wrote:
> Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
>
> And thats the problem. ClamAV wasnt really designed to be an av
> solution on a home machine. It doesnt disinfect, quaratine, or have a
> fancy gui like some other commercial av solutions. What it does do
Calvin Dodge wrote:
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 03:38:41PM -0500, Jim Maul wrote:
Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
And thats the problem. ClamAV wasnt really designed to be an av
solution on a home machine. It doesnt disinfect, quaratine, or have a
fancy gui like some other commercial av solutions. What i
Hi!
7-Янв-2005 18:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lionel Bouton) wrote to ClamAV users
ML :
>>1. When (I hope, not "if") disinfection will be implemented?
LB> disinfection is implemented by your backup software, just restore the
LB> last backup to restore infected files clamav will delete. If you don't
LB>
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7-Янв-2005 21:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter J. Holzer) wrote to ClamAV users ML
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>> Infected machine _isn't_ _rare_ situation.
PJH> No, but
PJH> 1) I think real viruses which infect other programs are getting rare.
For me, as victim of virus like CIH, is unimportant that this virus
Hi!
7-Янв-2005 15:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Maul) wrote to ClamAV users ML
:
>> JM> BBSes?? I ran one of those when i was 12...
>> This is only one example, that there is exists ways outside internet.
JM> Of course, but for open source software, how many methods can you really
JM> expect?
On 2005-01-08 03:06:56 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
> 7-???-2005 21:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter J. Holzer) wrote to ClamAV users ML
> :
>
> >> Infected machine _isn't_ _rare_ situation.
> PJH> No, but
> PJH> 1) I think real viruses which infect other programs are getting rare.
>
> Fo
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 12:18:27 +0100 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Peter J. Holzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2) You don't need freshclam to do the updates, but if you update
> manually, you also have to restart clamd and check for errors
> manually. (And I guess most people here consider having
On 2005-01-08 11:24:49 +, Brian Morrison wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 12:18:27 +0100 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Peter J. Holzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2) You don't need freshclam to do the updates, but if you update
> > manually, you also have to restart clamd and check for errors
> >
Hi!
8-Янв-2005 12:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter J. Holzer) wrote to ClamAV users ML
:
>> >> Infected machine _isn't_ _rare_ situation.
>> PJH> 1) I think real viruses which infect other programs are getting rare.
>> For me, as victim of virus like CIH, is unimportant that this virus is
>>
You're missing the main point of ClamAV: it's a server-based virus
scanner for e-mail.
It's not a workstation AV solution. Just because some people try to
shoe-horn it into a workstation AV solution does not mean that it is
designed for that purpose. Look at the virus database for ClamAV:
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 16:53, Freddie Cash wrote:
> You're missing the main point of ClamAV: it's a server-based virus
> scanner for e-mail.
>
> It's not a workstation AV solution. Just because some people try to
> shoe-horn it into a workstation AV solution does not mean that it is
> designed
On January 10, 2005 08:58 am, Trog wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 16:53, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > You're missing the main point of ClamAV: it's a server-based virus
> > scanner for e-mail.
> > It's not a workstation AV solution. Just because some people try
> > to shoe-horn it into a workstation
On 2005-01-10 17:44:26 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
> 8-???-2005 12:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter J. Holzer) wrote to ClamAV users ML
> :
>
> >> >> Infected machine _isn't_ _rare_ situation.
> >> PJH> 1) I think real viruses which infect other programs are getting rare.
> >> For me, as
Hi!
10-Янв-2005 18:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter J. Holzer) wrote to ClamAV users ML
:
>> This is one reason, why I will not mess myself with NT/XP, and from
>> Windows family prefer Win98, which I may handle outside it (from DOS).
PJH> OTOH, the Windows NT family has a functional privilege sy
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