Virus scan result shows problem shock horror!

Graham Watkins shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com
Sun Jul 13 11:01:43 UTC 2008


Recent virus scans using Clamav with Avscan front end have shown a 
virus: Phishing.Heuristics.Email.SpoofedDomain as infecting my mailbox

This presumably relates to a phishing E-mail I got recently purporting 
to be from Monster (which is weird because I'm not registered with them) 
which I deleted. However, it still shows up on scans.

Should I regard this as a problem and if so, what, short of deleting the 
entire inbox, should I do about it?

My mail program is Mozilla-Thunderbird if it matters.

NB.  I am aware of the strand of opinion that it is unecessary to scan 
for viruses on Linux partitions.  It is not an opinion I share for 
reasons I have stated before.  I have no wish to get bogged down in 
fruitless debates on this subject so kindly spare me any lectures.

-- 
Graham Watkins

"To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows
box, you just need to work on it."
SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman.





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