Good Morning Group;
The last two versions of ClamWin portable seem to pick up a virus in itself when scanning.
I do not get this when I make a portable ClamWin from the instructions on ClamWin's site. I wonder if this is not do to something that is done like compression when the portable version is made.
I should have written the message down. It is the only thing ClamWin picks up as haveing a virus on my PC's.
EDITED 06 / 22 / 2011
I missed the earlier post on this, Sorry. If it was fixed it is back now. I get ClamWin.exe listed as a Trojan. I get this running a local copy same version of ClamWin. I get this when running ClamWin on the PAF file. It is the only thing that gets any virus warning on my PC. Not even the local copy of ClamWin or its exe file get this warning. It is hard convincing people that it is a false positve when they ask you to scan their system for virus'.
Frank D. Hubeny
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In McAfee's On-Access scan it picked up this file that Clam stores in the Hosts' temp folder
clamav-9277f5b12cd1adbcb4632e8956696aa7.00001324.clamtmp
and detected it as: Generic.gk.!tra, Trojan
ClamAV has a file that stores the information on viruses called a virus definition file and because it has the information on how the various viruses works (for detection of the viruses) that couls be a reason why its saying that itself is a virus. McAffee has done the same in the past as well including calling its own products viruses.
Likewise, I installed Portable ClamWin this evening and the same Trojan / False Positive was isolated by Microsoft Security Essentials.
Would be handy if PA were to flag this up as a false positive.
Cambridge, UK