I did a clamscan on my system and found 2 infected files in thunderbird, one in the trash-folder and the other one in the inbox-folder. I emptied the trash-folder as well as all messages inside the inbox-folder. I ran clamscan again and was surprised to notice that the inbox was still infected, while it seemed empty. When I browsed to the inbox folder with the file browser (applications-file browser) and opened the folder with gedit it became clear that the folder wasn't empty at all. It contained still 10 MB messages (??!!) I deleted these. I checked the folder and now it really was empty. Again I ran clamscan but the the log file indicates the infected file is still there:
Scan started: Thu May 12 09:56:28 2005
/home/peter/.thunderbird/43r07o17.default/Mail/Local Folders/Inbox~: Worm.Sober.P FOUND
-- summary -- Known viruses: 34297 Engine version: 0.84 Scanned directories: 1871 Scanned files: 19716 Infected files: 1 Data scanned: 1029.98 MB Time: 426.309 sec (7 m 6 s)
Am I being fooled by clamav? Peter.
