Re: Clamav

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, 2010/April/18 13:39


> On Sunday 18 April 2010, Craig White wrote:
>>On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:37 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
>>> One other weird thing i forgot to mention.
>>>
>>> I install xp via wine 2 months ago.
>>> Have not touched it since.
>>>
>>> Started scanning just to see a week ago.
>>>
>>> The files that were renamed by the virus were done two days ago,
>>> according to time stamps.
>>>
>>> So this thing sat dormant until I started looking for them and that
>>> is
>>> when it attacked.
>>>
>>> Now that's wild
>>
>>----
>>from your description it sounds as if the other AV program identified
>>and renamed the files - whether it is a real positive or a false
>>positive is probably debatable.
>>
>>Sometimes I think the Windows AV products like to 'find' things to
>>demonstrate that they are working and have some value.
>>
>>Craig
>>
> For a change we are in agreement Craig.

For the larger Windows AV vendors that does not seem to be the case.
Of course, at least one of them behaves, itself, more like a virus
than an anti-virus with regards to system stability. (And one printer
manufacturer has addon software for windows that seems to fall under
that rubric.)

{^_-}
-- 
users mailing list
users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux