Has there been reported incidents in which Clam has been detected and or disabled by certain types of Malware or Adware?
mcd On 8/31/06, Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charles Swiger wrote: > On Aug 31, 2006, at 12:29 PM, mcd wrote: >> Could someone direct me to some good reading on Clam's ability to detect >> Malware/adware/Trojans etc. Maybe this is simple semantics, but I >> always see >> Clam advertised for Viruses, but not for Malware detection. > > ClamAV originally targetted email-bourne malware like viruses and > phishing scams, rather than stuff which spreads via other vectors like > worms and trojans. This being said, ClamAV is also used to do > filesystem scanning and does recognize a lot of trojans and worms. > > It's not going to review cookies and registry entries the way something > like Ad-Aware might; using more than one tool is a good idea in any event. > >> I specifically am going to run it from a Linux environment to scan a >> mounted NTFS file system. > > OK. It should work for that purpose... If you're not in a hurry - better is to install it locally on the Windows systems and test the local drives. Much less net traffic. dp _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
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