Virus scan result shows problem shock horror!

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Sun Jul 13 11:24:27 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 12:01 +0100, Graham Watkins wrote:
> Recent virus scans using Clamav with Avscan front end have shown a 
> virus: Phishing.Heuristics.Email.SpoofedDomain as infecting my mailbox
<snip>
> Should I regard this as a problem and if so, what, short of deleting the 
> entire inbox, should I do about it?

I don't use a virus scanner myself for reasons that you don't wish to
discuss :) but Google seems to show that this might simply be a false
positive; there a many posts to that effect in the search results:

http://www.google.com/search?q="Phishing.Heuristics.Email.SpoofedDomain"+clamav







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