[MBT] new ticket for pkg clamav "Virus detecting is poor"

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Date: 2002-11-06 17:57:26+01	Author: Ivan Mirisola (ivanmir) <ivan at nucci.com.br> 
Title:         Virus detecting is poor
Ticket ID:     #421
Ticket URL:    http://bugs.pld.org.pl/?bug=421
Package:       clamav-0.51-1
Distribution:  PLD-1.0.devel.main PLD-1.0.devel.test PLD-1.0.devel.supported
Category:      security problem
Current state: opened
Text:

According to the following e-mail, clamav is not able to detect the Melissa virus. I don't know if this has been corrected in version 0.53 or not. If so, is there a way to provide a new rpm package for this?

Thanks in advance,

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Ivan Mirisola
Nucci Systems
ivan at nucci.com.br

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From: Gavin Nelmes-Crocker <gavin at NETERGY.COM>
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

I know its currently unsupported in code status by mailscanner and this doesn't technically alter that but beware if you are planning to use it on a production box with no other scanners.

My findings so far with regard to virus detecting is poor we have pushed several real viruses through it and it hasn't detected them when f-prot,sophos and kaspersky all have. I'm not talking new ones here. One of the ones we are playing with is Melissa which is 2 years old.  We have up to date virus definitions for Clamav and it is working as it detects its own test file but not some of the others that I would expect it to.

Regards

Gavin
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