[clamav-users] How to manually delete infected file

[Dennis Peterson]

On 4/9/15 7:31 AM, sanes wrote:
> Does "clamscan --remove=yes" only delete infected file from hard disk, or
> also if running in memory (RAM)?
>
> we rather manually delete files that are infected, but not sure how to
> handle
Having clamscan remove files before you review them is probably the worst 
possible thing you can do with this product. If a false positive tags one of 
your critical system files and deletes it you will have a difficult time 
recovering. Same can happen with personal files. As good as ClamAV is you should 
never give up control over your files to a tool that makes a best guess as to 
what is and is not malware.

dp