On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 at 11:48:35 +0300, George Chelidze wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just found a message which was trapped with sanitizer because of 
> dangerous attachment (message.scr) and I thought it was a new worm. I 
> checked it against clamav online scanner which reported the following:
> 
> ClamAV 0.80/572/Wed Nov 3 11:48:18 2004
> ClamAV scans the file ...
> Clamav-Output:
> /tmp/php7TNJzC: OK
> Clamav DID NOT identify your sample as malicious content
> If you really think your sample is a virus or any other harmful thing 
> clamav should detect please go to
> http://clamav.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/sendvirus.cgi
> and submit the virus.
> 
> I submited the sample but got the following output:
> 
> Result:
> This virus is already recognized by ClamAV 0.80/572/Wed Nov 3 05:48:18 
> 2004 as Broken.Executable . Be careful when submitting samples and 
> remember to run freshclam!
> Please correct the above errors and retry.
> 
> I though I missed something and repeated the process but got the same 
> result. Any ideas?
> 

Seems that the scanner at sendvirus.cgi uses the DetectBrokenExecutables
option while "clamav online scanner" - not.

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