New ClamAV version

Holger Nöfer holger at noefer.org
Fri Apr 13 21:16:47 IST 2007


The ClamAV versions before 0.90 recognized phishing attacks.
The versions 0.90 and 0.90.1 does not recognized them, but the
new version 0.90.2 does.

I think it is a nice feature and I do not want to miss it.

Gareth schrieb:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 09:44, Holger Nöfer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> a new ClamAV version is released, 0.90.2
>>
>> http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20070413.012951.1d50edff.en.html
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Holger
> 
> I have just upgraded from 0.90.1 and now clamavmodule also identifies
> phishing attacks as viruses.
> I am not sure if I like this idea. One one hand it is better to block
> them and not rely on the backend mailserver (also running clamav) to
> identify and block them there but on the other hand I would like the
> reports when they mention the number of viruses to actually be the
> number of viruses and not phishing emails aswell.
> 
> 



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