[Mimedefang] ClamAV's Worm/Trojan/Joke/W97M classifications
WBrown at e1b.org
WBrown at e1b.org
Wed Jun 29 09:01:09 EDT 2005
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?
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