Virus scan result shows problem shock horror!

[Karl Larsen]

Graham Watkins wrote:
> 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?
>   
    You might stop and think. What does Thunderbird do with a deleted 
message? It puts the message in Trash. What should you do? Anything you 
want to. I am not about to tell you what to do.

Karl








> 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.
>
>   


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