Noel Jones wrote:
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:12:02AM +0000, Thalador Du'Fosnee wrote:
Ok, let me get this right. Clamav cannot clean? What good is it?
"Cleaning" of viruses is a marketing ploy.
Very few viruses in recent years "infect" files, they overwrite the
good data in the file with their own code. There is nothing left
after "cleaning" but a corrupted file. The days when a virus would
simply add x number of bytes to the end of a file are long gone.
Excellent point! 99.9% of todays email borne viruses contain absolutely
nothing but the virus. If clamav were to clean the files, there would
be nothing left but a few lines of text - what good is that? Prevention
is the preferred medicine of choice, in my humble opinion, and ClamAV is
doing a superb job!
Vernon
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