Clamav

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Apr 18 20:39:46 UTC 2010


On Sunday 18 April 2010, Craig White wrote:
>On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:37 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
>> One other weird thing i forgot to mention.
>>
>> I install xp via wine 2 months ago.
>> Have not touched it since.
>>
>> Started scanning just to see a week ago.
>>
>> The files that were renamed by the virus were done two days ago,
>> according to time stamps.
>>
>> So this thing sat dormant until I started looking for them and that
>> is
>> when it attacked.
>>
>> Now that's wild
>
>----
>from your description it sounds as if the other AV program identified
>and renamed the files - whether it is a real positive or a false
>positive is probably debatable.
>
>Sometimes I think the Windows AV products like to 'find' things to
>demonstrate that they are working and have some value.
>
>Craig
>
For a change we are in agreement Craig.

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