I hate to crosspost, but since it appears no one reads the Win32 list, I
switched my subscription to the main users list.
I've got ClamAV working and that is all good and fine. However, I
looked in the archives of the clamav-users list and saw that still as of
June 2005, ClamAV is completely uninterested in at least detecting spyware.
I have a problem with that. Here is how I define a virus:
- A digital invasion of unwanted and undesired bits in a computer system
designed to infiltrate and change the state in the system in a negative
manner.
Here is how I define spyware:
- A digital invasion of unwanted and undesired bits in a computer system
designed to infiltrate and change the psychological state of the user in
a negative manner.
Frankly, I could care less if you don't remove spyware from a system
with ClamAV. What I need is a _reputable_ scanner that works from the
command line to _detect_ if a system contains spyware. Since ClamAV
isn't apparently going to be that tool and Google isn't turning up a
reputable command-line anti-spyware solution with sufficient options, I
would appreciate a pointer to a tool that does this.
All I need is to have the tool tell me:
- Yes there is spyware on the system.
OR
- No there isn't spyware on the system.
I don't need it to disinfect/remove/whatever - simply recognize that
there is spyware, what file contains it, and display a notification as
such on stdout.
Seems to me that this is something simple that ClamAV could easily
implement in a very short amount of time. For those who don't want to
scan for spyware, include a command-line switch to "turn off scanning
for psychological manipulators (spyware, pranks, etc.)". However, since
ClamAV is uninterested in doing anything even remotely simple like this,
I need someone to point out a _reputable_ tool that is better than
ClamAV that does psychological manipulator scanning from the
command-line - preferably open source, but since nothing is turning up
on SourceForge or Google, I'll be impressed if someone finds anything.
--
Thomas Hruska
CubicleSoft
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