clamscan

[Peter Lesterhuis]

Hi,
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.