[clamav-users] Potentially False Positive, but I lost the file!

[Groach]

On 21/01/2017 18:44, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote:
> If you are so unhappy, why are you on the list?
>
> Please remain constructive and help out the community.
>
> --
> Sent from my iPhone

He asked:

" I just wanted to ask you whether I can be sure, or should worry; .... 
I would like to be sure that that was actually a false positive (or in 
which percentage it might be)."

And I answered him with my opinion:

(Of his original file recently now being detected):

1,  It was a windows installation CD
2,  Its a file nearly 20 years old
3,  Clam signatures couldnt detect water in an ocean.  (I would be very surprised if it ever detects a real threat for you).


All reasonable and FACTUAL for a determination to conclude that he would 
be safe. That means CONSTRUCTIVE in my view.   At what point does it say 
I am unhappy?  I am VERY happy with Clam with my additional use of 
effective 3rd party signatures (Sane Security).

Why remain on the list?

To be HELPful.  if I can giving people the opportunity of decisions 
based on other people's (my) opinions and experiences so that that may 
come to conclusion of their own once weighing up everything that they 
are advised, then I will.  After all, isnt that what a PUBLIC mailing 
list where people ask questions and advice to the public is about?

Why waste your time asking me these things and soiling the thread with 
irrelevant nonsense?  Evidently you dont like some of the disparaging 
things I say about the effectiveness of ClamAv signatures - so do 
something about the (ineffective) quality of the poor signatures and not 
about the people (plural!) mentioning it.