Clamav
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Apr 18 21:33:24 UTC 2010
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 16:57 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.
>
> You seem to be rather confused about ClamAV. AFAIK it's designed to trap
> Windows viruses in email, since these are the ones that actually matter.
> Perhaps it looks for some other stuff, I wouldn't know, but I'm pretty
> sure Windows malware is its main focus.
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more than e-mail though... the database patterns are of course Windows
but the various clam implementations are suitable for file server as
well as e-mail.
Craig
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