Hello,

Newbie question. I am not a technical person so please bear with me. I searched the FAQ but did not see what I am looking for. Here is the result after my first scan. It says infected files 0 but known virus 226, 477. I warned you these are dumb questions.
1) Are the 226,447 viruses on my pc? No, right? it would not be working if they were right? That is the nbr of viruses ClamWin is coded to search for, right?
2) If I did have an infected file, would ClamWin automatically fix/resolve the issue? (I didn't see any button (I know it would have been disabled in this instance) where I would have told it to fix/resolve.)
THANK YOU
Signed,
Dumbest question of day
----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 226477
Engine version: 0.92
Scanned directories: 5395
Scanned files: 68311
Skipped non-executable files: 829
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 14243.64 MB
Time: 12446.309 sec (207 m 26 s)
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Completed
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Known viruses are the number of signatures in the database to detect malware. ClamWin found 0 of those signatures on your computer.

Let me add that ClamWin can't "fix" an infection. It will only Notify you, Quarantine infected files, or Remove infected files--depending upon what you select in the Clamwin General Preferences folder. My personal preference (pun intended) is to Notify. This is because I once had a false positive (erroneous indication of a virus) in an important Windows file. I had ClamWin set to Quarantine, and it quarantined the Windows logon file--so I was unable to boot up Windows. I didn't know what was going on, so I restored my entire system, and it took me several days to get it back the way it was.

If you set ClamWin to Notify, you will have to go to the suspected file on your hard drive (the Clamwin scan log will tell you where it is), and upload a copy of it to the Jotti scanning service at https://virusscan.jotti.org/ on the Web so they can scan it with about 20 other scanners. If several other scanners there also find an infection, it is probably a real infection, and you will have to delete the file on your computer and restore a good copy from backup. Just hope it's not a system file!

Welcome to ClamWin!

Regards,

Thank you to both of you for your posts. I really appreciate the help!

Sonflower