Why has ClamAV just been installed on my 12.10 system?

[Jim Byrnes]

On 09/19/2013 12:05 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 09/19/2013 07:30 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:26:42AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
>>> For some reason ClamAV has recently been installed on my 12.10 system, I
>>> guess it must be because of something I've installed recently but I
>>> can't think what really.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any idea what might install ClamAV as a dependency?
>>
>> /var/log/apt/term.log may be helpful.
>>
>
> I've had clamav installed on my systems for a long time, but I don't
> think it scans my thunderbird. (System is PCLOS.) I wouldn't mind if
> it did. Is there a way of telling if clamav is scanning the email?
> If it isn't, does anyone know how to add that capability?
>
> --doug
>

In Edit-->Preferences-->Security-->Anti-virus there is a checkbox for 
Allow anti-virus clients to quarantine incoming individual messages.

I don't have any anti-virus clients and have not tried it so I don't 
what beyond checking that box that you need to do to set it up.

Regards,  Jim