Yes. Like all other virus scanners, they maintain a database of virus signatures which they use to detect viruses. Assuming the virus is in the Clam db, it will be detected. > On Feb 8, 2014, at 18:26, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > > I would like to ask about the ClamAV antivirus scanner. Is the ClamAV really capable of detecting a trojan etc within an .exe file? Thank you for links and any help. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140208/5a1e5b27/attachment.html>