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Re: lamAV doesn't seem to pick up viruses

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From:
Reuven M. Lerner
Date:
March 17, 2004 17:52
Subject:
Re: lamAV doesn't seem to pick up viruses
Message ID:
405900DD.5080008@lerner.co.il
Eric Smoker writes:


>>This really looks like a freshclam problem.  When you run freshclam do 
>>you get an output like:
>  
>

I have been running freshclam without any trouble, via cron every 24 hours
(and more often than that by hand).  So that wasn't the problem, so far as 
I can tell.

Until a few minutes ago, I was running clamav 0.67.  I just upgraded to 0.70-rc,
and re-ran my test.  Nothing more was detected.  clamscan and clamdscan returned
the same results.

As I told Eric in private e-mail, I believe that I have solved the
the problem (albeit in the "wrong" way) by changing my SpamAssassin 
definitions such that MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE gets 5 points.  I was also considering
writing a small plugin that rejects certain encoded virus signatures.  

But it would definitely be better to simply get clamav working correctly...

Reuven
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