Disinfecting files
A common request is for files to be disinfected automatically before being forwarded on to the final recipient. In the current version (0.95), ClamAV cannot disinfect files. The following information is available from the ClamAV documentation.
We will add support for disinfecting OLE2 files in one of the next stable releases. There are no plans for disinfecting other types of files. There are many reasons for it: cleaning viruses from files is virtually pointless these days. It is very seldom that there is anything useful left after cleaning, and even if there is, would you trust it?
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