Number of viruses found

[Peter Bonivart]

ClamAV does not disinfect, it only detects. I have no problem with
removing infected attachments, I've always been sceptical about
disinfecting anyway.

/Peter Bonivart

--Unix lovers do it in the Sun

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 02:36, Steve Hickel wrote:
> I used clamscan on my box and it said it found 10 infections but failed (as far as I could tell) to disinfect them (I think they were in the quarantine subdirectories mailscanner put there. I couldn't figure out what flag to use to get it to do what f-prot does with the auto command.
>
> Steve
>
> InvictaNet Customer Support <support at INVICTANET.CO.UK> 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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