On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 11:24 -0400, Chris Gauch wrote:
> We are currently running ClamAV (0.86.2) in a Linux Sendmail (8.13.4) and
> MIMEDefang (2.53) gateway filtering environment and have seen an increase in
> false positives over the past several weeks.  Most client complaints have
> been specifically geared toward not received Microsoft Excel attachments,
> when attached directly (in raw format, uncompressed, not zipped by WinZip).
> We're up to the latest virusdb, 1073, and our logs indicate that over 86
> attachments have been flagged as "suspicious" by ClamAV 0.86.2 over the past
> couple of days.  We're beginning to wonder how many of those "suspicious"
> attachments were actually legit Microsoft documents.  Any insight or
> investigation into this issue would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

ClamaAV doesn't classify things as "suspicious". I suggest you look at
the other software you are using.

-trog

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