Bart Silverstrim wrote:
Personally, my gripe is that the product is called ClamAV. If it's expanding it's mission to protect people from everything called "malware", I'd change the name to something that indicates it's a malware detector and not a virus detector. Phishing scams are *not* viruses. Maybe change it's name to ClaMal. It'll make the O'Reilly book cover look interesting, too.I can't believe this is still going on! This got old "fast" the last time it was discussed.
But this would probably never happen. *shrug*
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This isn't about detecting messages concerning Viagra, or getting 27,000,000 by helping some yutz in Nigeria.
The way I see it, any item regardless of it's delivery method that has the potential to do harm financially or otherwise should be stopped (IMHO) by the AV.
These messages are running out of control. They are clever, and when used in conjunction with their associated websites are very hard to identify it from the real thing.
ClamAV isn't the only agent that detects "Phishing" attempts. Mcafee, PcCillin, etc detect these attempts why would anyone expect ClamAV to do less
I may be thinking of something else here, but if memory serves the dev team will be providing a method for you (or anyone) not wanting these detected, to disable it.
and with that the debate should be ended.
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