Charles Swiger wrote:
On Aug 31, 2006, at 12:29 PM, mcd wrote:
Could someone direct me to some good reading on Clam's ability to detect
Malware/adware/Trojans etc. Maybe this is simple semantics, but I
always see
Clam advertised for Viruses, but not for Malware detection.
ClamAV originally targetted email-bourne malware like viruses and
phishing scams, rather than stuff which spreads via other vectors like
worms and trojans. This being said, ClamAV is also used to do
filesystem scanning and does recognize a lot of trojans and worms.
It's not going to review cookies and registry entries the way something
like Ad-Aware might; using more than one tool is a good idea in any event.
I specifically am going to run it from a Linux environment to scan a
mounted NTFS file system.
OK. It should work for that purpose...
If you're not in a hurry - better is to install it locally on the
Windows systems and test the local drives. Much less net traffic.
dp
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