On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Michael Grant wrote: > Before automating something to post thousands of viruses to that web > page, you might want to warn a real human first.
Begging pardon, but exactly how is it that this one person has hundreds (?) of viruses that have not been detected anywhere else? If these viruses are spreading world-wide, then why aren't they entering all the different virus databases by multiple paths? I would still question whether there has been misidentification of some sort, or perhaps Aaron's ClamAV updates are not working properly? Did this 'flood' of undetected viruses just start recently? Remember there were those issues with the change of library location in the past few months. Freshclam could be studiously updating his 'wrong' database and reporting success, but Clamd is using the original package main database with no dailies? Aron, I would suggest submitting a few viruses to the submission mechanism, then wait for the next ClamAV update, and see if those viruses are then detected. If not, you know what is happening. If those viruses *do* get detected, then I would question whether these viruses are being specifically 'targeted' at Aron. Something is just not right here. Either Aron is categorizing as 'virus' a type of 'bad' file that is *not* (does ClamAV care about spyware?) or somehow he is getting singled out for all these viruses. Otherwise, why aren't they all being updated from all over the world? Aron, can you offer a few examples of virus names/descriptions detected by other software, so we can be certain that ClamAV "should" be detecting them? Hope this helps! - Charles _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
