[clamav-users] Different results: Clamscan vs ClamWin

Joel Esler (jesler) jesler at cisco.com
Wed May 3 00:18:15 UTC 2017


First thing I notice is that you are running two different versions of ClamAV.  

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> On May 2, 2017, at 20:08, Rafael Ferreira <raf at uvasoftware.com> wrote:
> 
> Can you tell us which virus you encountered? Also can you validate that the file has the same checksum in both windows and Linux? 
> 
>> On May 2, 2017, at 2:22 PM, Peter B. <pb at das-werkstatt.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Clamav users,
>> 
>> I was scanning a ZIP file with both: clamscan (on Xubuntu), and clamwin
>> (on Win7).
>> Clamwin found a virus, where clamscan did not.
>> 
>> I'm surprised, since I thought these are just 2 frontends for the same
>> engine and virus database?
>> 
>> I updated the database on Linux using "$ sudo freshclam".
>> No change.
>> 
>> 
>> Grateful for any information why clamscan finds less than clamwin...? :)
>> 
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Peter B.
>> 
>> 
>> ============================================
>> Software versions on my setups:
>> 
>> Xubuntu 12.04.1 (64bit):
>> -------------------------
>>   ClamAV 0.99.2/23350/Tue May  2 15:02:21 2017
>>   main.cvd is up to date (version: 57, sigs: 4218790, f-level: 60,
>> builder: amishhammer)
>>   daily.cld is up to date (version: 23350, sigs: 2063182, f-level: 63,
>> builder: neo)
>>   bytecode.cvd is up to date (version: 296, sigs: 58, f-level: 63,
>> builder: anvilleg)
>> 
>> 
>> Win7 (64bit):
>> -------------------------
>>   ClamWin v0.99.1
>>   Virus DB Version: main 57 daily 23350
>>   Updated: 15:02 02 May 2017
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