thanks for the replies. I know that sometimes one scanner will find a file that the other wont i was just curious if clamAV tends to not find viruses that norton finds. Thanks again for your reply Daniel...a couple other people tried to make me sound like i had no clue how a virus scanner worked.
---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:43:03 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamav vs norton > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > > > On Fri, March 2, 2007 11:25 am, Sean Pinegar said: > > > > I trusted clamav for a long time but ran across an interesting problem > > today. I received an e-mail from a friend that included a powerpoint. I > > opened the powerpoint in linux and wine flagged it as a virus (not sure > > how wine knew there was a virus...can anyone enlighten me on that?). I > > scanned it with clamav and it said the file was ok. I scanned it with > > norton and it came up as being infected. I updated clamAV and tried > > again, same results..the file was ok. I was just curious if anyone else > > has ran into this type of problem? I dont want to ditch clamAV but i have > > to do whats best for the business. > > No virus checker can find all viruses, all the time, and any may have > false positives from time to time. > > If you believe there really is a virus in that file, I would suggest you > submit it to the ClamAV team so they can add it to their database. > > There will be times ClamAV finds a virus Norton cannot, and vice-versa. > On the average, ClamAV seems to be the finder more often than not. > > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html _________________________________________________________________ Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline_______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
