Mark Martinec wrote the following on 5/21/2007 5:06 PM -0800:
> Bill,
>
>   
>> I've noticed that when multiple message parts match different clamav
>> signatures, *all* the signature names must be listed in
>> @virus_name_to_spam_score_maps for it to be considered spam.
>>     
>
> Yes, as documented in RELEASE_NOTES:
>
>   [...] When a virus scanner returns
>   names of viruses, and all provided names are matched by the
>   @virus_name_to_spam_score_maps, and no other virus scanner has
>   anything more sinister to report, then a message is _not_ flagged
>   as a virus, but a corresponding spam score is contributed to other
>   spam results [...]
>
> This is a key issue here.
>
> Your test example after enabling /^MAIL$/ (which requests that
> a full message is passed to virus scanners, besides each decoded
> part), clamd starts to report _two_ malware names.
>   
Mark, can you tell me why the Email.Malware are still not detected
without enabling /^MAIL$/?  I would like to keep virus scan processing
to a minimum, but if I disable /^MAIL$/, then Email.Malware messages are
not detected.
> As the 'Phishing.Email' was not in your @virus_name_to_spam_score_maps
> list, such mail did not fulfill the requirement that _all_ reported
> names must be in the list for the result to be turned into spam,
> so you ended up with a quarantined 'virus'.
Thanks for the explanation, and thanks to Noel for his assistance in
figuring this out off-list over the weekend.

Bill

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