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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