Jeremy Fairbrass wrote:
> Hi all,
> Is it possible to disable a specific virus name so that ClamAV won't detect 
> it anymore? For example by creating some sort of special 
> whitelist database file (in the same location as my .db files), or something 
> along those lines?
>
> I'm running clamd on my mail server, which is called via clamdscan, and I 
> frequently have the phishing "virus" named 
> Phishing.Heuristics.Email.SpoofedDomain trigger on incoming, legitimate 
> emails which are actually not phishing at all - ie. false 
> positives.
>   

Please submit those false positives here:
http://cgi.clamav.net/sendvirus.cgi

> I know I can disable phishing checks altogether in my .conf file, but I'd 
> like to keep them enabled, as the other phishing checks 
> that clamav does, do work fine (and I also use SaneSecurity's phishing 
> databases). I just want to be able to specifically disable 
> Phishing.Heuristics.Email.SpoofedDomain so that clamav no longer uses that 
> one.
>
> Can this be done?
>   

Put this in your clamd.conf:
PhishingScanURLs No

It disables all Phishing.Heuristics.*, it keeps signature-based detection.


Best regards,
--Edwin
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