ClamAV is now marking phishing messages as virus-positive.

I think it's a bit ludicrous to consider phishing messages as viruses
rather than spam -- they share far more traits with spam than viruses, I
think, although I can see why anti-virus software works well for this
with their rapid-rule-deployment infrastucture.

Anyway, ClamAV can do what they want, but I think everyone building a
corpus needs to put ClamAV phishing positive messages into their spam
corpus rather than classifying them as viral and removing them from
their corpus.  I strongly suspect this is throwing off some of our
forgery and anti-phishing rules.

Daniel

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Daniel Quinlan
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