"Heuristic.Phishing.email.SpoofedDomain" Virus

Nonsense! First, as has been pointed out to you an uncountable number of times, that is not malware, it is a potential phishing e-mail. Secondly, how did you remove it? By deleting the e-mail message? Surely you don't think that actual malware would be so easy to delete, do you? As to the e-mail problem, some other factor is at play there, not malware.

I say all this not to educate you, which I've completely given up on, but to ensure your nonsense does not cause unnecessary anxiety in others who stumble on this topic.

macfrombrampton wrote:

Describe to me what you think a phishing EMail would perform

From WikipediA:

Phishing is attempting to acquire information (and sometimes, indirectly, money) such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Describe to me what you think a phishing EMail would perform, as you are not calling it Malware?

A phishing e-mail pretends to be from a legitimate entity, and tries to get you to visit a site that is not legit, but looks very much like the web site of the spoofed entity, in an attempt to get you to enter some personal information, such as your login credentials. There is no malware involved, just a fake link in an e-mail that has been spoofed to look like it comes from someone else.

This has been explained to you numerous times before.

Malware is widely considered to be defined as including computer viruses, worms, trojanhorses, spyware, adware, most rootkits, and other malicious programs. E-mail messages are not any of these things although an attachment could be.

The expression ‘malware’ is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software.

The key word there being "software"... some text and a link in an e-mail message, no matter how hostile or annoying, does not equate to executable code.

"malware" by common definition is software of some sort that installs on your computer. The term is a conflation of the words "malicious" and "software" and hence clearly refers to programming code running without authorization on your computer with the intent of taking unauthorized control of your computer, stealing personal information, or performing some other act that would be harmful to the computer and/or its users.

A phishing email, since it is not software on your system but strictly a message that purports to be something it is not, would by the common understanding of the term not be considered malware. A phone call from someone claiming to be from your bank and asking for your bank account information would be the same, just via a different medium.

But this is strictly a argument over semantics and hence no point in continuing the discussion on that basis. If you wish to consider a phishing email to be "malware", you are free to do so, though you should understand that few other people will understand it on that basis.

The most important thing is that with a phishing email, unless it came with some sort of attachment or responding to the email authorizes download of something, there is nothing on your computer to remove other than the message itself. If you respond to such an email with personal information, then you have to address the problem with the service for which you divulged said personal data.

Regards.

Yes, unbelievable! Since January. BTW, the earth is flat.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3641143?tstart=0

Just checked the OP's post history. Well, gee, that was a waste of time. 😠

The ClamXav forum is here:

http://www.markallan.co.uk/BB/viewforum.php?f=1

I would suggest you ask these questions there.

To prevent it getting spammed, I've asked the hosts to edit out or obfuscate that e-mail address for Mark Allan.

Great. Thanks again.