Re: [Evolution] Phishing virus

[Reid Thompson <reid thompson ateb com>]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 09:45 -0700, James a martin wrote:
> > Evolution community,
> >
> >         I use Ubuntu Hardy OS and Evolution to read email over Verizon
> > internet.  Verizon disabled my outgoing email for a day because I had
> > abusive sending from my computer.
>
> I don't understand how you were sending these viruses unless you were
> doing it manually, e.g. by forwarding mail from elsewhere. It's
> extremely unlikely that the viruses were affecting your own machine.
>
> >         I installed Clam TK and found viruses called Phishing.  I deleted the
> > files.  They were in Evolution/mail/pop/name/cache/N, where N was a
> > series of folders with numbers.
>
> You mean Phishing was the actual name of the virus? Don't you mean it
> was a "phishing-type virus"?
>
> >         Running Clam TK to find viruses is hard because I needed to run it on
> > each of many folders before I found the viruses.  New viruses may come
> > as soon as I download more email.  Is there a better way to prevent
> > viruses?
>
> Can't you run Clam on .evolution/mail? Better still, if viruses are a
> serious problem in your environment, why not run it as part of your
> mail-fetching process? I think that's the way it's intended to be used,
> but I'm no Clam expert.
>
> poc
>
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This thread describes configuring evo to scan incoming mail via ruby/clamav.
http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution-list gnome org/msg10293.html

It's also written up here

http://cclips.blogspot.com/2008/12/evolution-clamav-ruby.html