Even it its unsegmented form, clamav detects much more than 
virus/malware payloads. In fact here the "other" is the majority that 
ends up in quarantine. Further, they are all treated as if they are 
really malware payloads and not spam/phish/fraud/mules/etc email. 
With the addition "unofficial" and/or local signatures, this ratio 
just increases. Additionally, many of these samples in quarantine 
should be used when rebuilding the spam.db.

I feel that current processing is to simplistic and is inappropriate 
to the sophistication that the rest of assp has become.

I propose that assp apply rules to the clamd result to determine what 
should be done. This would be similar to the current way that DNSBL's 
are handled. I envision:

test=>what,weight

where test is a regex; what is VIRUS for quarantine, SPAM for 
phishing, spam, etc., OK is an OK file (future clamd functionality), 
WHITELIST identifies a signature that needs to be ignored; and weight 
is a score modifier.

Examples could be:

MBL_=>VIRUS,1.00
MSRBL-SPAM=>SPAM,1.00
Phish.*heuristic=>SPAM,0.80
Sanesecurity\.Junk\.9851=>WHITELIST,0
netCDF=>OK,0

Just my thoughts. Sorry I am not too proficient in Perl to help in 
any other way than ideas at this time.

Tom

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