Have you uploaded the files that are being incorrectly detected here:
http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/sendvirus/submit-fp/

?

Cheers,
-matt

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alexander "Sasha" Y. Avanesov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> ClamAV falsely detects a BC.Exploit.CVE_2010_0815 in a ".ppt" file. I ran the 
> file through VirusTotal and only ClamAV shows it as infected. I found a 
> 2-year old message related to this issue:
>
> http://lurker.clamav.net/search/20380101.000000.00000000@ml:clamav-users,false,positive,bc.exploit.cve%5F2010%5F0815.en.html
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/clamav/users/48954
>
> though it was never fully resolved. Alain Zidouemba reported he updated the 
> detection for CVE_2010_0815, but Ewald Beekam reported he continued to have 
> the problem. There was no response and I am also having this issue.
>
> Please advise on this.
>
> Thanks for your time and effort!
>
> Sincerely,
> Sasha
>
> P.S. I am running release 0.97.2 (using ClamXav), so I don't know if the 
> 0.97.3 takes care of this or not, but given that this issue persisted for 
> over 2 years, I doubt anything has been done. Any help with this would be 
> greatly appreciated.
>
> P.P.S I also had a false positive on BC.Exploit.CVE_2010_3970 in Word 
> document (that I created and which only had a numbered list of about 10 
> items), though VirusTotal reports the file is clean (aside from the ClamAV 
> scan). After I copied the contents of an "infected" file into a new word 
> document, the file is reported as clean, but I do wonder if this is another 
> ClamAV issue that needs to be looked into. Thanks again for your help.
>
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