[clamav-users] Generating a positive?

[Al Varnell]

On Apr 21, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Dave Shevett <shevett at pobox.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone - we have clamav now running happily via cron job and
> integrated with puppet.  Problem is I want to have it successfully find
> something so I can test our notification mechanism.
> 
> "Infect one of my servers" seems a big gruesome.  Is there an easy way
> to test clamav notifications (like a simple test rule that says "if
> there's a file called BOB here, you're infected with the BOBSMASH virus?"

There is an entire directory in the tarball /clamav-0.98.1/test/ that contains almost one hundred files that test several aspects of the scan engine and are exclusive to ClamAV®.


-Al-
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Al Varnell
Mountain View, CA