Re: ClamAV effectiveness
Joel Esler <[email protected]>
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On Oct 11, 2013, at 10:00 AM, David F. Skoll <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If it's your opinion that 99% of .exe files are viruses, then >> configure your mail server to block .exe files. > > Yes, I already do that... but isn't that a bit of a copout? If ClamAV > is missing 80% of the viruses that we receive, it's not terribly useful, > is it? It helps the ClamAV tremendously if these files are submitted to the ClamAV team for analysis. -- Joel Esler Senior Research Engineer, VRT OpenSource Community Manager AEGIS Intelligence Lead _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net