Re: How capable is ClamAV?

pinguin74 <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 14.09.2014 17:53, schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> On 2014-09-14 17:18, pinguin74 wrote:
>> What is your opinion about the strength of ClamAV?
> 
> I now and then I receive malware in email it does not detect. Sometimes
> Avira does. And other times it is the other way round.
> 
> I never detected anything in suspicious docs, but I don't know if
> because they were clean, or because the scanner failed to detect.

Well, maybe antivirus tools really are not much better than a placebo...
I just hoped, ClamAV may have a good heuristic system....
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