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Spear phishing and Comodo
KingerKingKong


Joined: 03 Apr 2019
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Location: Ukraine
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Hi! I've started to receive strange emails from my chef asking me download some strange non-text files. He's out of reach in his vacation so I can't ask him. Can ClamWin detect if it's spear fishing& I've read about it here: https://www.safetydetective.com/blog/what-is-phishing-and-how-to-protect-against-it/ (very useful and simple advices)? I worry if hackers will be able to attack my PC.
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GuitarBob


Joined: 09 Jul 2006
Posts: 9
Location: USA
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ClamWin detects viruses from signatures provided by the Clam AV Project for Linux email servers. I do not think it is very strong in detecting any kind of phishing attempts, as it is not a real-time antivirus. It only scans "on demand" as the user requests a manual scan of a file or as the user has scheduled a scan at a certain time. You need a real-time Windows antivirus like the free Windows Defender for best protection.

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