[clamav-users] Question about Repairing infected files

[Al Varnell]

On Dec 3, 2016, at 9:02 PM, crazy thinker wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> It is  known that ClamAV uses Pattern Matching  to Catch infected files.

Not often. Most are checked against a hash value these days.

> In
> this case,Can We  use Pattern Removal Statergy  to repair infected files.

For the most part, malware no longer modifies legitimate files, so repair is unnecessary. Deleting the entire file is generally the best course of action for today's malware.

> could anyone of you help me to get  steps that follow for repairing
> infected files

Not worth the effort for the very few files affected. For documents infected with macros, there are easier ways to ignore or remove them and the documents are not normally ones that are needed in any case.

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-Al-