Why file is excluded?

Viruses and worms
1

Hi. Any ClamWin guru on the forum?

I scanned a floppy or as it is called a diskette to-day with ClamWin anti virus scanner, one of the files there was a notepad file containing the results of some queries with Sam Spade’s tool, this was saved there as persistent.log. AV scans this file as 100% OK, why does ClamWin exclude it from its scan. Anyone in the know about this behavior of the ClamWin Scanner. I use it as a second opinion scanner, because it is non-resident. I fed the file to jotti scan, and there all is OK, also ClamWin. I cannot dig this behavior?

greets,

polonus

2

See the exclusion list of extensions into ClamWin settings…
Maybe it’s there… :wink:

3

Hi Tech,

You were right, log was mentioned there. 10 points for you.

greets,

polonus

4

They are probably excluding files they don’t believe to represent a virus threat (.log, .txt, etc.) to speed scans.