F-Prot vs BitDefender vs ClamAV

[Roger Jochem]

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I use it! And I delete it. I imagine they're safe. But there was an previous
thread in the mailing list about putting these phishing alarms in
quarantine. You coul'd do that for some time to see how efective is the
clamav detection...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Welsh" <zen23003 at ZEN.CO.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: F-Prot vs BitDefender vs ClamAV


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Roger Jochem
> > Sent: 11 March 2005 19:21
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: F-Prot vs BitDefender vs ClamAV
> >
> >
> > A lot of clamav catches may be phishing.net detection, that the other
> > antivir don't do.
>
> I'm glad you mentioned that. I don't bother putting viruses into
quarantine,
> I just delete them.  Presumably the phishing messages meet the same fate?
I
> guess this isn't a problem unless it's a false alarm.  MailScanner has
given
> me some false phishing alarms in messages from the likes of travel
> companies; I wouldn't want these deleted as a matter of course.
>
> Do you think it worthwhile using MailScanner's phishing with ClamAV?
>
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