[clamav-users] ClamAV Info

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 22.05.19 10:51, Christopher Do - IQ-C via clamav-users wrote:
>It can quarantine files, right?

no, only scan for viruses. other functionalities are left for different
software following basic UNIX logic "do one thing and do it good".

>On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:49 AM Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>
>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 21 May 2019, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:
>>
>> > Em 21/05/2019 11:37, Christopher Do - IQ-C via clamav-users escreveu:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I'm looking at endpoint security solutions and was wondering if anyone
>> > > could help me out with this info for ClamAV?
>> > >
>> >
>> >      basically, clamav is not what you're looking for ... it's basically
>> > a file scanner antivirus, not a resident antivirus, not a memory
>> > scanning antivirus, nothing of these features you're looking for. clamav
>> > is not an endpoint antivirus, it's a simply file scanner antivirus.
>>
>> In fact, ClamAV is simply a file virus scanner.  It isn't an
>> "antivirus" at all -- it cannot remove viruses or deactivate them.

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