Christoph Cordes wrote:
> Joe Evans schrieb:
>
>   
>> Can anyone shed some light on the log entries below?
>>
>> (1) "Can't calculate offset for signature Trojan.Mybot-5073"
>> (2) "Broken PE file"
>>
>>     
>
> The file is broken. This happens very often with such samples
> (SdBot/Mybot). With ClamAV .9x the recognition of broken executables was
>  greatly improved. While 0.8x doesn't care too much about it, 0.9x is
> more strict and refuses to start offset calculations on broken files.
> It's not a big deal since such files usualy wont run.
>
>   
Your are absolutely correct. When attempting to run these files on a 
WinXP system, Windows returns with a dialog indicating that it's not a 
valid Win32 Executable..

Thanks for clearing this up. Much appreciated!

Joe
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