[clamav-users] Nonsensical noreplies from ClamAV team

[Maarten Broekman]

"If you provided a description that suggests otherwise..." is a past tense
conditional referring to the form submission. That phrase is the equivalent
to this longer "If you put information in the description that suggests the
sample is not clean..."


On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 2:27 PM G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <
clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2021, Alessandro Vesely via clamav-users wrote:
>
> > even though I filter incoming messages with ClamAV, last Monday I
> received a
> > mail with two suspicious attachments.  They were PE32+ executable (DLL)
> (GUI)
> > x86-64, for MS Windows.  I uploaded the samples to virustotal.com, who
> > reported they were recognized as troyans.  I saved the viral message and
> > uploaded it to https://www.clamav.net/reports/malware.  On Tuesday I
> received
> > the following message:
> > ...
>
> The same thing happened here earlier this week IIRC from one or two of
> our automated submissions.  As the reply also said
>
> > If you provided a description that suggests otherwise, we will
> > further examine the sample & proceed from there.
>
> and we did so provide, I left it there.
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Ged.
>
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