Sophos and Phishing

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed Mar 25 23:18:24 GMT 2009


on 3-25-2009 3:33 PM Paul Welsh spake the following:
> I have clam and sophos running on my MailScanner box.  I notice that clam
> regularly blocks phishing messages (particularly bank related ones) as
> viruses.  Sophos doesn't.  Is this a configuration issue or is clam just
> better at this?
> 
Clam has some phishing signatures that maybe sophos doesn't. Plus there are a
lot of third party signatures for clam. Open source means more people
contribute to it.

-- 
MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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