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[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

John Dangler wrote:

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> yeah - it's one of those packages that (i guess) you just need to have
> the entire kde environment installed in order for it to run.  I really
> that was the case with clamtk... I installed it to see what it does
> over the commandline tool... It installed a TON of kde stuff with it,
> and on a clean install of Edgy (according to the gui) found 17
> viruses. Looking through the 125,000 files it scanned, it didn't mark
> ANY of the files as infected.  Then I run sudo clamscan -r -i / from
> commandline... everything checks out ok (like I would think it
> should)... so clamtk is definitely junk (IMO), so it's coming off

Just out of curiosity, what version of ClamAV did/do you have
installed, and do you happen to know if ClamTK did anything funny like
throwing the --enable-experimental switch?

Thing is, clam isn't exactly prone to false positives like that but it
*will* scan email and does a pretty competent job of spotting phishing
attempts if told to do so. I was wondering of maybe something like that
wasn't what you were seeing...???

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