Virus being missed. (assumed)

[Matt Kettler]

At 02:26 PM 3/7/2005, Scott Silva wrote:
> > You can use this site to send a rared eicar file.. It wasn't caught by
> > clamav until I added external unrar support.
> >
> > http://www.info-techs.com/eicar.shtml
> >
>
>I guess this is another plug for having multiple virus scanners installed.
>The above test from info-techs gets stopped by McAfee and BitDefender.

I agree 100%.

It's also a plug to add as many compression extensions to ClamAV as possible.

ClamAV will catch it just fine if you have unrar added, but will miss it
entirely if you don't.

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