On Tuesday 07 August 2007 09:28, Registration Account wrote:
As you know clamAV provides NO realtime virus detection and from time to time we all need to execute a clamscan - Well I just performed a clamscan and found 4 folder which a year or so stored and catagorised emails and all 4 folders were infected with Phishing.Heuristics.emal.spoofedDomain virus's. As almost all emails are held in mbox format I would suggest everyone to run a scan periodically. Remember clamAV provides NO repeat NO real time protection, even if you copy them to a MS Windows or NSF drive or open an infected file or execute an infected .bin file
Scott
There is some thing that I don't understand. Why would anyone keep every piece of mail that comes through? Especially junk mail. I know another person that has never deleted any e-mail. She actually got into a panic once when her computer died and she thought it was all gone. She was able to retrieve it from her old hard drive. If something important enough that I want to keep it comes through I print it off and save it that way. Most of that stuff is genealogy related so I can file in my cabinet. "Phishing" e-mails are not a "virus". Just a scam. They do nothing unless your stupid enough to click on the link and enter name and card number [ and such ]. If I'm bored I will sometimes play with them. Click the link and put in stuff like: "Name" - John E. Hoover "E-Mail Address" - jedgar@fbi.gov I get lots of "phishing" attacks. Mostly from someplace pretending to be eBay or Pay Pal. If you get one of these send it to "spoof@ebay.com or paypal.com". Whichever is appropriate. Believe it or not eBay goes after these people. Trys to get their ISP's to lock them out. -- (o:]>*HUGGLES*<[:o) Billie Walsh The three best words in the English Language: "I LOVE YOU" Pass them on! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org