There have been a lot of false positives in the past few weeks. Fortunately, I had all my users turn off quarantining a few days ago. Unfortunately, one of them didn't and lost explorer.exe.

Is something changing? The number of false positives is making clamwin unusable.

j

I'm not sure exactly why the false positives. I've received a couple of falsies lately in my AVG antivirus also, which is a bit unusual. I have noticed an overall improvement in detection rates (on Jotti) for almost all antivirus programs during the last couple of months. I assume they are getting a little more agressive. A new security industry association (AMTSO--the AntiMalware Testing Standards Organization) is trying to come up with some more relevant standards for testing antivirus/antimalware software. They may have something by the end of this year. Perhaps the antivirus companies are trying to improve their detection in response to that.

Regards,

yes not really a good thing, hope this should not happens so frequently now