"Noel Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> You can disable the heuristics-based phish checks without
> disabling the signature-based checks.  Both the official
> clamav and SaneSecurity sigs will still work, but the false
> positive prone heuristics will be disabled.
>
> With clamscan, use the --no-phishing-scan-urls option.
> For clamd/clamdscan set in your clamd.conf:
> DetectPhishing yes
> PhishingScanURLs no
> and restart clamd.
>
>
> -- 
> Noel Jones
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Thanks guys, that's just what I needed to know! :)

Cheers,
Jeremy 



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