I have just a done a sweep of my bootable hard disc and Clamwin has come up with so many false positives that I am starting to doubt Clamwin's usefulness. I have run AVG and a couple of other AV tools and none of them are finding any viruses/trojans in the same files. Clamwin never used to flag up so many FPs and now I am finding so many that it is now hard to find the wood for the trees. So many FPs in error that if I checked every single one that I'd be working for hours. So, I've started ignoring them, which means that Clamwin is no longer a useful tool for me. I am now using AVG instead as it appears to find and report files I know as being genuinely infected. It reports a few FPs in files such as Combofix, which is understandable but in general although AVG has crappy UI, it does the job. It is sad I'm now using AVG as I've been a Clamwin user for years but I'm losing confidence.

If you get the same detection on many files, you should submit One file to Clam AV so they can fix it. You can ignore it, of course, but you will be helping other users if you submit it.

ClamWin version .96 will not quarantine Microsoft files that are false positives but will give the user a message/reminder to submit it to Clam.

Regards,