On Sep 10, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Carlos Williams wrote: > --remove > Remove infected files. Be careful. > > Why is this dangerous or does it have a caveat warning?
It's got a caveat because it's going to delete anything which matches it's signatures-- and even things with URLs which happen to trigger the phishing heuristics, if you've got that option enabled. For the case of container files like the mbox format, you'd rather delete individual messages containing a virus rather than all of the messages in that mbox file. If possible, you should restore any virusized filed from backups and then re-check to make sure you've cleaned up everything... Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
