Using ClamXav

Factual Questions
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Coupla specific questions for those in the know on using this Mac-centric anti-virus software.

  1. I very carefully created a folder on the desktop. I named it Quarantine. I went into the Preferences and told the software to use this folder as the quarantine destination. It did indeed show that this folder would be used.

  2. I ran the software and went to bed. I awoke to find ten variations on this exact problem file:

FILENAME INFECTION NAME

113532.emlx Heuristics.Phishing.Email.SpoofedDomain

I’ve now run this three times. Each time, the same 10 files appear, different only in the numbers in the filename. Each time, I open the quarantine folder to find it completely empty. Wondering why, I put it into the Trash Can and Secure Empty the Trash.

It appears that I have downloaded the latest updates to this software. It also appears that it is NOT removing or placing into a quarantine these problem files.

Why?

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http://www.clamxav.com/BB/viewtopic.php?p=19683&sid=a0a5f4bffcf771782e33764326689be8

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Thank you!

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I assume you’re aware that ClamAV is a MacOS software product that scans for and isolates Windows-based malware, yes?

Whatever it alerts you about, whatever it isolates, is not likely to ever be a MacOS-based exploit. There are some genuine vulnerabilities in MacOS that could (or could have) led to malicious MacOS viruses and other malware — some of them quite worrisome — but as far as I’ve ever heard none of them have been exploited by actual malware that was out there “in the wild” as opposed to proof of concept stuff in somebody’s lab.