On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, henry j. mason wrote: > clamav has been catching lots of Worm.Bagle.AG, ever since it > has appeared on the scene, and this is the first real report > i have of anything slipping by it. of course, since the zip > files in all cases so far have been actually empty, this does > not represent a serious threat, just an annoyance. indeed, i'm > not sure how clamav can be expected to block something that > does not in fact contain a virus :> > > has anyone else encountered this? i can easily see a poorly > written virus sending out botched copies of itself.
I've personally received about 5 of those (though 4 were from the same IP). I had assumed that some lesser virus scanner upstream was stripping the "bad part" out and passing the rest along. Damian Menscher -- -=#| Physics Grad Student & SysAdmin @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign |#=- -=#| 488 LLP, 1110 W. Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 Ofc:(217)333-0038 |#=- -=#| 4602 Beckman, VMIL/MS, Imaging Technology Group:(217)244-3074 |#=- -=#| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Fax:(217)333-9819 |#=- -=#| The above opinions are not necessarily those of my employers. |#=- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
