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Is it safe to allow ClamAV to delete files?

Posted by Kristy, 10-01-2011, 06:56 AM

A ClamAV scan has found a number of infected files in different client email accounts. Is it safe to have ClamAV to remove this files? Has ClamAV ever been wrong? Thanks, Kristy

Posted by CH-Shaun, 10-01-2011, 07:46 AM

I've found that ClamAV on Windows does pick up false positives. I can't comment much about ClamAV on Linux though. I wouldn't just set it to automatically remove infected files.

Posted by ssfred, 10-01-2011, 10:17 PM

Configuring Clamav to delete the detected files is not a good idea, instead of that you can set it to quarantine those files and remove them manually.

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