On Friday 09 April 2004 3:15 pm, Henry Harvey wrote:
> Would it be possible to report what
> viruses (names) are not being detected by ClamAV,
> instead of submitting a sample?
That isn't much use, since without a sample we can't generate a signature.
> We have Symantec Corporate Ed AV running on
> all workstations and it blocks those files
> from even saving to any pc. I have the logs
> which says that
>
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ClamAV calls that one Worm.SomeFool.P
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I've never seen that oen - don't know what ClamAV calls it
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ClamAV calls that one Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1
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I haven't seen that one here
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ClamAV calls that oen Worm.SCO.A
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ClamAV calls that one Trojan.Dropper.C
> are still being delivered to workstations.
> Meaning they were not stopped by ClamAV.
In that case there must be some problenm with your MTA/ClamAV setup, since
mine is detecting them fine here (an old version of ClamAV running under an
old version of MailScanner).
> A search on the database of ClamAV results
> with nothing with those same variants.
Have you *read* any of the postings recently about virus names and different
A-V vendors' inconsistencies!?
> ClamAV works perfectly fine with other viruses though, like those "SomeFool"
> viruses.
Good.
> Can I just report those names with no samples?
(a) you already did
(b) without a sample we can't add anything to the signatures' list - it's not
like you just have to know someone else's name for a virus and you can
automagically detect it.
Regards,
Antony.
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