On Jan 22, 2014, at 7:25 AM, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Charles Swiger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 10:40 AM, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I received a number of messages on the 17th that were tagged incorrectly 
>>> with:
>>> 
>>> X-Amavis-Alert: INFECTED, message contains virus:
>>>       Heuristics.Safebrowsing.Suspected-phishing_safebrowsing.clamav.net
>>> 
>>> I tried to figure out what the pattern was, but apparently it no longer 
>>> exists?
>> 
>> There is no specific pattern responsible for the "Heuristics" type.
>> 
>> Basically, it generally indicates that the email contains URLs which take 
>> one to a
>> different site than what is being displayed to the user.  The "safebrowsing" 
>> string
>> also suggests that one of the domains in question was listed on Google's 
>> blacklist
>> of sites containing suspected malware.
> 
> So I can assume that since clamscan no longer finds a virus, that the
> string that triggered the false-positive is no longer part of the
> blacklist?

There is no “string”.  The heuristics process looks for suspicious formatting, 
usually involving an e-mail from a financial institution, but since this 
apparently comes from the Google SafeBrowsing folks, I guess you would have to 
find a way to ask them.


-Al-
-- 
Al Varnell
Mountain View, CA




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