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I used to run ClamAV for a few years, both on Linux and macOS. The only thing it ever detected were Windows viruses in my spam mailbox. Every time I received a
by ancarda 7y ago
I used to run ClamAV for a few years, both on Linux and macOS. The only thing it ever detected were Windows viruses in my spam mailbox. Every time I received a spam email, ClamAV would complain and I'd have to go delete the email that was already not in my inbox.
- Jach 7y agoThis is ironically one of the ways using any AV can increase the attack surface of a device, leading to its compromise. I don't know if ClamAV has ever had an issue, but it seems lots of people here have forgotten the zoo of not-that-long-ago Windows Defender exploits that could be triggered by it scanning various files, like in a spam email the user never even looked at but their client downloaded a copy of anyway. The issues are often made worse by the AV processes that get owned already having root privileges.