Comment 28 for bug 787864

Sergey,

<quote>
In general the same result like on SUSE, but what is strange:
- despite here as well clamscan sees virus while clamtk not
- it found only 1 virus among firefox files while could find those 4
viruses that SUSE reported
</quote>

I think the differences you are spotting is because ClamTk will often avoid certain directories: mostly typical mail directories (like .thunderbird or .evolution) and sometimes even .mozilla directories. This is because parsing mail is a difficult thing to do. In Linux, mail files are typically just one file. So, if any part of it has a detected "virus" or something AND you quarantine or delete it, you just deleted the whole thing. That would be bad. I talk about this on the FAQ page:
http://clamtk.sourceforge.net/faq.html#inbox

respectfully
dave