Which versions are you seeing this under? I've tested notepad.exe from 98, ME, and XP Pro and show no virus result for it.
It is possible that the files are indeed infected. My suggestion before writing it off as an error on ClamAV's part, is to take the win machine in question and perform a webscan via trendmicro, norton, or mcafee KenC ----- Original Message ----- From: "chirag gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 11:01 AM Subject: [Clamav-users] Great surprise!!! CLAMAV is showing virus into Notepad.exe on Windows 98 CD provided by Microsoft. > I have successfully installed CLAMAV into my machine > into Linux and updated its virus database. For > checking it's efficiency I mounted my windows drive > and performed scanning on it using clamscan. > Surprisingly, I got a virus warning into notepad.exe > it was showing infected by W32.Ladmar.A. However, I am > already having Norton Corporate Edition with latest > updation installed into my windows. So, I went to > windows and checked notepad.exe for virus using > norton. Norton had not shown any virus, but CLAMAV is > showing into linux. I had also checked virus on > notepad.exe extracted from the Windows .cab file from > the CD provided by the Microsoft. Still CLAMAV is > showing virus warning. > > On the URL > > http://clamav.ozforces.com/database/viruses.db2 > > virus signature for W32.Ladmar.A is present into > notepad.exe. So, whether the virus present into > notepad.exe or CLAMAV's virus database contains wrong > signature. > > Thanks, > Chirag Gandhi > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Clamav-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
