Subj : Ddge 3.99/SR9/SR16 released and avai
To : Nicholas Boel
From : Vince Coen
Date : Wed Dec 06 2017 03:27 pm
Hello Nicholas!
Tuesday December 05 2017 17:24, you wrote to me:
> Hello Vince,
> On Mon Dec 04 2017 17:06:02, Vince Coen wrote to Nick Andre:
VC>>>> Clamav (0.99.2) has reared its head again and found a false
VC>>>> posative for th release.
VC>>>>
VC>>>> This is with an up to date version of the virus files etc.
>>> And I have politely emailed them a few times now, filled out
>>> forms, submitted every recent release for their review, etc etc.
>>> Crickets chirping.
VC>> Yep, cannot say I am impressed by their support and update
VC>> procedures.
> Their last update was 7 months ago! I guess it's only important to
> update definitions, and that's it.
VC>> I must try again and see if another virus checker is available
VC>> for Linux that is FOC or similar.
> The only other scanner I saw on archlinux was p3scan. You can give it
> a try but I'm fairly certain clamav is the best if not one of the only
> scanners for linux.
> However, since you know DB's false positive is a non-issue, why not
> just put it in the ignore file? I'm sure you can wildcard the version
> number or something.
Yep, that did it - HOW :
Go to the directory containing the clamd DB in my case it is /var/lib/clamav
Create a file called whitelist.ign2 with ONE line of
Win.Virus.Virut-5914242-0
Make sure you do NOT have a blank line !!! as clam will produce an error and
stop.
Vince
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