Ken Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Knowing two "freinds" that have responded to phising emails and what it > took afterwards to correct the problem ..... they would beg you to > remove the possability of this threat.
Bit Fuzzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm sorry, but I personally know 7 people who fell prey to this > practice, and I've gotten emails from users thanking us for the > addition. > > Set it up as an option if needed, but as a network administrator, I'd > rather be on the safe side and allow them to view the email held if they > desire, than to find out that because it got through and put a hard > working family in to financial turmoil. If people require machines as desperately as that to prevent themselves from falling for fraud attempts, humanity is truly doomed. To those of you who argue that ClamAV should detect phishing attacks even though tools like SpamAssassin are designed and inherently better suited for doing that, I'd like to say that you will never really be able to abandon SpamAssassin & Co. anyway. ClamAV will never be able to replace SpamAssassin without becoming SpamAssassin. Bit Fuzzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can't believe this one subject can create such a mess. I absolutely concur. Considering that exactly _no one_ here demanded that ClamAV abandon its capacity for detecting phishing attacks, little yellow rubber ducks in PNG images, or whatever else, the uproar is truly ludicrous. What was actually requested is that there be an _option_ not to scan for certain classes of malware. No one would be disadvantaged by that. Oh well, I can only hope that the ClamAV developers won't let themselves be deceived by specious counter-arguments such as "configurability is bad because admins might goof up their config and then be insecure", and will consider adding configurability for what to detect, or making the sig database modular. Everything else on the topic has been said, I think. _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
