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Re: download of source packages alarmed clamav



Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 08:04:00AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:

>>> These are real-life viruses that should not be distributed using
>>> Debian's FTP server (IMHO).

>> This comes up periodically. They aren't real.

> It would appear they're real enough to trigger clamav's detection, which
> was the problem the OP was having.

Given that the whole point of those files is to test clamav, I would hope
that they would trigger clamav's detection.  If not, that would be a bug
in clamav, no?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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