What is the safest way to remove a virus from a Mac?

Hello!
I just ran a virus check using ClamXav and a virus popped up. The information for the virus is as follows:
File name: 32294 . emlx
Infection name: Heuristics. Phishing. Email. Spoofed Domain
(There are no spaces before or after the periods.)
I've never had a virus on here before and I always try to be safe, but sometimes others use the computer as well.
If anyone has any tips or information about this horrible thing I would truly appreciate it!
Thank you for stopping by :-)

That is not actually a virus, it's just an e-mail message that ClamXav suspects may be a phishing e-mail. The key phrase there is "may be." ClamXav uses some heuristic rules to try to identify potential phishing e-mails, but those rules are far from reliable.
Control-click on each item in the list of malware ClamXav has detected, and choose Reveal in Finder. This will show the problem e-mail message file (named using a number followed by ".emlx"). Double-click that file (don't worry, this is perfectly safe) to open it in Mail. You can then delete the message from there, if it is actually a phishing e-mail.
Never allow ClamXav to delete e-mail messages. That can corrupt the index of the mailbox the message is in, and it does not remove the message from the server (if it's still stored on the server), so you may end up with the bad message showing back up again.

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