Yes. It notifies you of the virii's presence and identifies it's location. It leaves you the option to remove it yourself; this protects some email programs by allowing a person to refine the procedure of removal without resorting to a brute-force extraction which clamav is capable of. Clamav's behavior can be modified according to user's/system administrators needs.
Within Linux, one has access to modify the settings of the .conf files which are utilized by different components of clamav (freshclam and clamd). On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:44:34 -0400 Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does ClamAV for Linux detect a Windows or Mac virus? Is the virus database > the same no matter what platform the scanner is running on so that viruses > intended for a system other than the one the scanner is running on will be > detected?
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