Luis Miguel R. wrote:
> El Monday, 24 December del 2007 a las 10:55:51AM, Dennis Peterson escribió:
>> Paul Kosinski wrote:
>>> In December 2006, we were running ClamAV 0.88.7, and there were still
>>> a fair number of "real" viruses being detected in inbound email. Now
>>> running 0.91.2 and 0.92, there seem to be only phishing attempts, and
>>> not even very many of them. In fact it seems that our log file shows
>>> almost as many (hourly) signature update messages as phish detections
>>> (much less "real" virus detections).
>>>
>>> Have other ClamAV users experienced a similar decline in email
>>> attacks?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> And this can be considered "bad news" for clamav integrators :).

Most of the viruses that I used to get are blocked by my 
bad-attachment-filename blocker.   Block the really inappropriate stuff 
(.exe, .com, .bat, .pif, and a list of about 20-30 others), and the 
number of viruses that trickle through to clamav is amazingly small.
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