On Wednesday 17 October 2012 12:06:36 Alain Zidouemba did opine: > Gene, > > Signatures for Potentially Unwanted Applications or "PUA"
So that is what that stands for! It is flat out undefined in the sites doc.pdf. Like I said in a previous msg, that .pdf needs translated to plain English. > are turned > off by default and have to be explicitly turned on. My crontab's invocation had --detect-pua, with no following argument, so apparently it defaults to on in those circumstances. > You can safely > keep them turned off if they don't work for your environment and your > scanning needs. > with that option set to =no, it does seem to be behaving itself better. Plus, I do a freshclam daily, but picked up 3 newer editions when I ran it by hand before this run started. Maybe I should do the freshclam 2x a day? > You can also ignore any signature locally by just adding the signature > names, one on each line, to a file local.ign2 in your DB directory > (please see www.clamav.net/doc/latest/signatures.pdf for more > details). I assume I must create that file. What should its perms be set to? > - Alain Thanks Alain Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! Hmmm ... a CRIPPLED ACCOUNTANT with a FALAFEL sandwich is HIT by a TROLLEY-CAR ... _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
