[KLUG Members] Clam AV unable to detect virus

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I am using latest version of Clam AV with fresh update. Clam AV is unable to
> detect virus like Win32.Parite and Win95.Spacer.

You do realize there are no such virus as Win95.spacer?  What derivative of
Win32.Parite are you talking about? I suspect you are comparing it to a
commercial virus scanner that (a)* uses different virus names and (b) is
returning a false positive on some file.  We have three virus scanners: Solo,
BitDefender, and CLAM.  CLAM is far more accurate than the other two.

* The anti-virus industry is mostly paranoia and blowing smoke.  Virus 
database
maintainers make up there own names for virusses, and frequently differ unless
a common name has already been stuck to it in the pop-news.  This is in 
part to
hide the embarassing fact that CLAMAV is almost always the first to bag 
a virus.

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