On 2011-08-02 02:56, Al Varnell wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Török Edwin <ed...@clamav.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/26/2011 11:59 PM, Al Varnell wrote:
>>> Is there something going on with subject infections?  I see that it's listed
>>> on the clamav home page as a "Current Threat".  We got several users asking
>>> about this in the ClamXav Forum (including a Linux user?) and I can't seem
>>> to find it in the signature database any more.
>>>
>>
>> It is an engine detection (actually it is 
>> Heuristics.Phishing.Email.SpoofedDomain).
>> All engine detections are prefixed with 'Heuristics.'.
>>
>> This detection is for phishing emails, you can look in daily.pdb to see a 
>> list of 'protected' domains
>> (i.e. if a phishing email targets one of those domains we should detect it).
> 
> Thanks for that explanation, that helps a lot.
> 
> Is there any reason why clamscan would be making such detections and clamd 
> not?

Maybe someone edited clamd.conf and turned off phishing detection? 
(PhishingScanURLs no).
clamscan uses the default settings that can be overriden by command-line flags, 
it doesn't use the clamd.conf settings.

Best regards,
--Edwin
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