Clamav

[jdow]

From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
Sent: Monday, 2010/April/19 10:29


> On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:28 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
>> If the virus definitions from Clamav is written for linux based
>> viruses and not windows based then what real good is it.
>> All virus definitions should be included with the scan
>> Especially if Wine and virtualbox are running on a linux system
> 
> If you read the reviews of anti-virus software, from time to time, you
> will see that none of them are 100% effective.  The last review I read
> came to the conclusion that the most effective checkers only managed to
> find about 60% of the viruses, and not all the same viruses.  That is a
> pretty poor rating - just a bit less than half will get through.

The last time I ran though a complete rating of AV tools none of them were
as bad as you declare. Please enhance your assertions with facts not
fantasy. It makes your assertions stronger.

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