ClamAV missing Sobig

[Gerry Doris]

>
> On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:18:22 BST, Antony Stone writes:
>>No, I mean a machine specifically intended to enable people to find out
>> what
>>the various anti-virus products make of a particular file.
>>
>>The whole reason I said I couldn't see the technical way of doing this
>> yet
>>was because of the "innocent victim" problem.
>
> So don't send anything back per mail, but use another channel. I can
>  imagine the user entering the msg-id in some web-form to see the scan
>  output. (Of course, the tradeoff would be the used diskspace and
>  overhead for the webstuff (server and cgi et al).)
>
> cheers,
> &rw

The problem I see is that it would end up being a great service for the
virus writers.  They could tweak and adjust until they ended up with a
virus that wasn't detected by the majority of scanners.

Gerry