Dennis Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > It is quite possible the exe file was incomplete making it impossible to > decompress. That happens a lot. It is curious that you bother scanning > exe files at all, though. Many admins reject them immediately along with > all the other file types that Microsoft has identified as dangerous. See: > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q262631 > > Reject immediately what you can. I've never received a friendly bat, > com, scr, pif, or exe file, for example, so don't waste cpu cycles > scanning them for viruses. They are summarily rejected with prejudice.
Oh I agree and that is actually in place (via simscan). The .exe was removed from a .zip file for debugging my problem. So the .exe file never changed from one scan to the next, yet changing the definitions somehow made the scanner pick up the virus. Andy. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
