[KLUG Members] Clam AV unable to detect virus

[Komal]

> > 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.
>
> --
>
Thanks for reply.

In my experience Clam AV is not able to detect number of virus signature
that Nortan 2003 can capture.

Regards.

Komal