On Wednesday 17 October 2012 14:56:49 Chuck Swiger did opine:

> On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > No, WRONG context. I am explicitly turning it off.  Whether that is
> > the same as removing it from the launching cli, I haven't tested. 
> > But I suspect that if I removed --detect-pua, it would still default
> > to on. Correct?
> 
> Nope.  This is well-documented:
> 
> clamscan(1)                     Clam AntiVirus                    
> clamscan(1)
> 
> NAME
>        clamscan - scan files and directories for viruses
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        clamscan [options] [file/directory/-]
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        clamscan is a command line anti-virus scanner.
> 
> OPTIONS
>        Most  of  the  options are simple switches which enable or
> disable some features. Options marked with [=yes/no(*)] can be 
> optionally  followed by  =yes/=no; if they get called without the
> boolean argument the scan- ner will assume 'yes'. The asterisk marks
> the default internal  setting for a given option.
> [ ... ]
>        --detect-pua[=yes/no(*)]
>               Detect Possibly Unwanted Applications
Then we have a bug. :( from the run just completed, --detect-pua=no was 
ignored, it still found them all.  That IMO is a bug.  I'll remove it for 
the next test run.
 
> Regards,


Cheers, Gene
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