Number of viruses found

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Jun 8 21:14:47 IST 2003


I would go for Sophos and F-Prot finding fragmented or partial viruses and
not reporting them as they are harmless. Without you telling us what it
found or how big the files were, there's not much else I can guess at.

At 21:10 08/06/2003, you wrote:
>Any ideas as to why Sophos found 1, F-Prot found 1 but Clam found 2?
>
>Jun  8 20:08:32 lemsip MailScanner[78113]: Virus Scanning: sophos found 1
>infections
>Jun  8 20:08:32 lemsip MailScanner[78113]: Virus Scanning: F-Prot found
>virus W32/Bugbear.B at mm
>Jun  8 20:08:32 lemsip MailScanner[78113]: Virus Scanning: f-prot found 1
>infections
>Jun  8 20:08:32 lemsip MailScanner[78113]: Virus Scanning: clamav found 2
>infections
>Jun  8 20:08:32 lemsip MailScanner[78113]: Virus Scanning: Found 2 viruses
>
>
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