[Mimedefang] ClamAV's Worm/Trojan/Joke/W97M classifications

[WBrown at e1b.org]

mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 06/28/2005 02:24:24 
PM:

> It appears that ClamAV's virus database attempts to classify malware by
> prefixing the virus name.  However, many of the viruses don't have
> prefixes and others are prefixed by W32 and other things.  Does anyone
> handle different viruses differently?  i.e. discard worms and trojans, 
but
> strip Word viruses?

Nope.  I'm curious why you might want to handle different forms of evil 
differently.

Does it matter if it's a word macro virus, or a trojan that turns your 
computer into a zombie?  Do you really want either one on your system?