On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 05:24:36PM -0500, Justin Pryzby said:
> Have you seen bug #203433?
> 
> clamav finds a false positive in nmap-fingerprinting-article.txt.gz.
> 
> I can't find that there's a cloned bug against clamav, but I feel that
> it should be either reassigned or cloned.  (I can't see that that
> article includes any mallicious code, thus a bug).
> 
> Justin
> 
> References
> 
> [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=203433

It's a non-issue:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ clamscan 
/usr/share/doc/nmap/nmap-fingerprinting-article.txt.gz
/usr/share/doc/nmap/nmap-fingerprinting-article.txt.gz: OK

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 31478
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 0.04 MB
I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes
Time: 0.481 sec (0 m 0 s)

Take a look at the submitter's info:

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 8880
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Scanned directories: 6304
Scanned files: 95425
Infected files: 1
Data scanned: 3713.65 Mb
I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes
Time: 1561.047 sec (26 m 1 s)

He is not using a standard list of viruses, so his false positive is
presumably his problem.  cc'ing the original bug and submitter.
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