[clamav-users] Using clamav to test for bad links in incoming emails

[J.R.]

> Has anyone rigged clamd to check what looks like questionable links
> contained in incoming emails? It seems over the last 2 weeks my spam has
> tripled, and I suspect the real payload is in the urls in the message.
>
> Or is this so time consuming and bandwidth wasting its not worth it?

There are some 3rd party clamav definitions that are geared towards
spam. However, for something that's just plain-text I think would be
better served by an anti-spam package like SpamAssassin or similar
that can do Greylisting, RBL lookups, Bayes analysis, SPF & DKIM, and
all that good stuff.