Nothing to do with ClamAV, 'cuz it's a Mozilla/linux feature.

It's related to a Mozilla bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209501 ... They've been working on it since 2003 ...

In one of my Trisquel PC's, on which I haven't yet started consolidating emails, I found two emails with no subject, no headers, and no body but with the 12/31/1969 date as the only information, associated with folders in which the latest entries were both related to the changing of passwords, one for this Trisquel forum and the other for my McAfee antivirus (used on the WinXP OS on my laptop).

Evidently, folks in the linux community have been using linux's zero-time glitch to make/modify admin passwords with some sort of trickery:
http://www.codejourneymen.com/content/adding-admin-user-drupal-site-without-overwriting-admin-user
https://books.google.com/books?id=tj0-8ctawTsC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=password+12/31/1969#v=onepage&q=password%2012%2F31%2F1969&f=false

Search on "password 12/31/1969" and you'll see how ubiquitous this problem is.

Finding where this mysterious phantom email resides is another matter having nothing to do with malware.
Call it dateware, if you will.


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