-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Hi there -- > > As a general rule of thumb, what is the oldest a file should be from any given > day that is in the quarantine directory > before it should be deleted from the system? > Depends on how often you check the quarantine directory. The directory is only a temporary place to put something until someone can verify the file actually contains a true virus and delete it OR determine the virus may have been intentional (clamav.tar.gz downloads get quarantined on my system because they contain the test virus) OR that the virus can be removed and the problem fixed by someone knowledgeable of how to do such a thing.
I would live with a manual cleaning of the directory and stay away from an automatic cleaning of the directory. But, one could say 1-year may be a reasonable amount of time. - -James -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEayi7kNLDmnu1kSkRAre+AJ9SiTtlzTxvnV6Oab+gg7tuoR+sEQCfULEH kOm5oexO3Bf9yxUpQVh7Bcc= =EkTT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Scanned by ClamAV - http://www.clamav.net _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
