> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert > Blayzor > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] testvirus.org results > > > On 3/31/04 9:51 AM, "Antony Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's because none of those tests contains a virus - not even > a pretend one > > such as Eicar. > > > > Since there's no virus, ClamAV doesn't have anything to detect. > > That may be true for Test #24, but on test 21, 23 and 25 every one that I > received had attachments with the virus in a zip file format. > They may not > appear to have attachments in a lot of mail clients, but they do in broken > M$ clients. (or so it's said) >
These tests to not appear as attachments on any of the 50 machines we have here running various versions of outlook and outlook express. Symantec AV does running on the workstations also dont pick anything up. These tests are basically harmless from what i have experienced. Now granted, i dont know exactly what they are supposed to exploit, but i have been unable to get them to do anything harmful. Besides, I hardly think it is up to ClamAV (or any virus scanner for that matter) to detect something that really ISNT a virus, but COULD be in a broken M$ email client. Jim ------------------------------------------------------- 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
