On Thursday 29 January 2004 6:46 am, Allyn Baskerville wrote: > I have worked on this for quite some time, and I'm not sure why Clam won't > detect the Eicar test virus.
It does for most people.... > It does, however, detect other virii. > Additionally, virii in zipped files are not detected. If I scan the files > manually, i.e. 'clamscan eicar.com' or 'clamscan eicar.zip', the following > is returned: > > Known viruses: 20584 > Scanned directories: 0 > Scanned files: 1 > Infected files: 1 > Data scanned: 0.00 MB > I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes > Time: 0.437 sec (0 m 0 s) Well, this certainly suggests that it has successfully found the virus: "Infected files: 1". You say this is what happens when you scan the files manually - what do you have to do to get clamscan not to detect Eicar? Antony. -- Programming is a Dark Art, and it will always be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. They're not things you can always overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule. - Damian Conway, Perl God Please reply to the list; please don't CC me. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users