On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Alain Zidouemba <[email protected]>wrote:
> > ClamAV can only detect malware, it does not clean or even quarantine > > anything. > > ClamAV does not just detect malware, it can can quarantine it. Since when? As long as I've been using it, it's been a detection-only system. The frameworks that use ClamAV (milter, amavisd, etc) handle the quarantining. All ClamAV does is say "file good" or "file bad". > > And it's geared toward e-mail, which means the focus of the AV DB will be > > threats that use e-mail as an attach vector. As such, you won't > signatures > > in the DB for things like boot sector viruses, or rootkits, or things > like > > that. > > The focus of the AV DB is not just threat that use email as an attack > vector, but rather malware that can make its way to end-users > machines, regardless of the vector or attack. > That could be, although everything I've seen on this list has been that ClamAV is geared toward e-mail-based malware. -- Freddie Cash [email protected] _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
