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.

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