Why has ClamAV just been installed on my 12.10 system?

[Robert Holtzman]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:10:14PM -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> 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.

Back when I ran clamav I was using mbox for my email. Clamav wasn't
capable of quarantining individual messages. It could only operate on a
file and since a mailing list was saved as one file clamav would
quarantine the entire file with all that list's messages. If Tbird uses
mbox to save mail, and you have clamav activated, you could be in for a
surprise when an entire mailbox disappears. If Tbird can use maildir or
any format that stores each message in it's own file you would be OK. 

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