Re: [Clamav-users] Mimail Virus

2004-01-10 Thread Antony Stone
On Saturday 10 January 2004 8:48 pm, Philipp Grosswiler wrote: > > That depends on how broken it is. > > I guess that's the problem with this virus. It is so badly written. > > > If what you have is a damaged piece of viral code, does it really > > matter which virus it was before it got damaged?

RE: [Clamav-users] Mimail Virus

2004-01-10 Thread Philipp Grosswiler
> That depends on how broken it is. I guess that's the problem with this virus. It is so badly written. > Beyond a certain amount of loss of the complete virus, there > isn't enough left to know what it was supposed to be, and besides, if what > you've got isn't the complete Mimail virus, it s

Re: [Clamav-users] Mimail Virus

2004-01-10 Thread EyedMax
Philipp Grosswiler wrote: I found out that ClamAV does not always recognize the Mimail virus, instead it is reported as "Seriously Broken Zip", which may be correct, but doesn't really identify the virus itself... How can this be avoided? I would like to get the virus name instead of the informati

Re: [Clamav-users] Mimail Virus

2004-01-10 Thread Antony Stone
On Saturday 10 January 2004 6:49 pm, Philipp Grosswiler wrote: > I found out that ClamAV does not always recognize the Mimail virus, > instead it is reported as "Seriously Broken Zip", which may be correct, > but doesn't really identify the virus itself... > > How can this be avoided? I would like

[Clamav-users] Mimail Virus

2004-01-10 Thread Philipp Grosswiler
I found out that ClamAV does not always recognize the Mimail virus, instead it is reported as "Seriously Broken Zip", which may be correct, but doesn't really identify the virus itself... How can this be avoided? I would like to get the virus name instead of the information of a broken ZIP? Regar