Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-23 Thread Sarocet
G.W. Haywood wrote: > Third, ClamAV _can_ be used to scan files on a machine. But that's > all it really does, it scans them and tells you if it thinks any of > them might be infected. That doesn't sound to me like what you want. > I think you want something that will 'disinfect' them. ClamAV do

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-23 Thread Jim Preston
Tom Shaw wrote: > At 9:42 AM +0100 6/23/09, off...@jimrailton.com wrote: > >> Hi there. Thanks for all the info. >> >> The virus is : OF97/Tristate-C >> >> We are running a G4 on 9.2.2. Theoretically we could upgrade to osX, but we >> will be getting new machines in the next couple of months,

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-23 Thread Tom Shaw
At 9:42 AM +0100 6/23/09, off...@jimrailton.com wrote: >Hi there. Thanks for all the info. > >The virus is : OF97/Tristate-C > >We are running a G4 on 9.2.2. Theoretically we could upgrade to osX, but we >will be getting new machines in the next couple of months, and our current >main system (fil

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-23 Thread off...@jimrailton.com
un 2009 12:24:26 +0100 (BST) > To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS > 9.2 > > Hi there, > > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 off...@jimrailton.com wrote: > >> The virus is : OF97/Tristate-C > > I'm

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old > mac OS 9.2

2009-06-23 Thread sydz
> From: T?r?k Edwin > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old > mac OS 9.2 > To: ClamAV users ML > You can upgrade your OS, you are using an OS version that was EOLed > before the first version of ClamAV was released! > On

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-23 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 off...@jimrailton.com wrote: > The virus is : OF97/Tristate-C I'm afraid we geeks haven't been particularly helpful so far, so I think taking a couple of steps back and looking at the bigger picture might help you. First, ClamAV isn't your typical anti-virus packag

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-23 Thread off...@jimrailton.com
> Reply-To: ClamAV users ML > Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:34:34 -0400 > To: ClamAV users ML > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS > 9.2 > > At 8:04 PM -0400 6/22/09, John Jasen wrote: >> Tom Shaw wrote: >> >>> You c

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-22 Thread Tom Shaw
At 8:04 PM -0400 6/22/09, John Jasen wrote: >Tom Shaw wrote: > >> You could copy your MS Word files to an OSX machine and check them. >> You could search on eBay for an old AV program that worked on OS 8/9. >> You could email the suspect file(s) to virustotal so check them. Or >> you could turn

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-22 Thread fchan
Hi Julie, I don't think clamav existed when Mac OS 8(1997) & 9 (1999) where out and clamav can't really be compiled on Mac OS 8 or 9 since Mac didn't have gcc for the Mac OS at that time. Can someone at clamav correct me if I'm wrong on the first release of clamav. You can use install 10.4.11 al

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-22 Thread John Jasen
Tom Shaw wrote: > You could copy your MS Word files to an OSX machine and check them. > You could search on eBay for an old AV program that worked on OS 8/9. > You could email the suspect file(s) to virustotal so check them. Or > you could turn off Macros in Word and copy the contents to new fi

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-22 Thread Tom Shaw
At 2:41 PM +0100 6/22/09, off...@jimrailton.com wrote: >Hi there. I did read the archives and couldn't find anything about my >query. > >We have two older macs, a G3 running OS 8.6 and a G4 running 9.2. I believe >we have a microsoft word virus that I would like to get rid of. Is there a >versio

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-22 Thread Török Edwin
On 2009-06-22 18:34, off...@jimrailton.com wrote: > Hello Edwin > > Sorry, I'm not a huge computer whiz kid... I don't know what a compiler > is... It is used to compile source code (that you download from clamav.net/sourceforge) to binaries that you can execute. > and if the GCC version doesn't

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-22 Thread off...@jimrailton.com
00 > To: ClamAV users ML > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS > 9.2 > > On 2009-06-22 16:41, off...@jimrailton.com wrote: >> Hi there. I did read the archives and couldn't find anything about my >> query. >> >>

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-22 Thread Török Edwin
On 2009-06-22 16:41, off...@jimrailton.com wrote: > Hi there. I did read the archives and couldn't find anything about my > query. > > We have two older macs, a G3 running OS 8.6 and a G4 running 9.2. I believe > we have a microsoft word virus that I would like to get rid of. Is there a > versio

[Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-22 Thread off...@jimrailton.com
Hi there. I did read the archives and couldn't find anything about my query. We have two older macs, a G3 running OS 8.6 and a G4 running 9.2. I believe we have a microsoft word virus that I would like to get rid of. Is there a version of Clamav that will work on these old operating systems? I