On 09/24/2013 12:25 PM, Joel Esler wrote:
> It’s beneficial for you to both.  It indicates to us that you care enough to 
> send us a sample individually and we can work with that, it always helps when 
> the community provides us with samples!
> 
> --
> Joel Esler
> Senior Research Engineer, VRT
> OpenSource Community Manager
> Sourcefire
> 
> On Sep 21, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Daniel Quintiliani <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Occasionally I submit attachments in my Spam folder to ClamAV via the
>> ClamAV.net "submit malware" form.
>>
>> A frequent type of spam message I get are written in Chinese, with Excel
>> or Powerpoint files attached, with hexadecimal codes in the file name
>> separated by "x".
>>
>> I scan with VirusTotal first and in most cases there is no malware. Then
>> I submit the malware to ClamAV.
>>
>> The CRDF people told me once that their third-party ClamAV signatures
>> makes use of real-time VirusTotal scans. Is the same true of ClamAV's
>> official signatures? I frequently get these messages and I'd imagine it
>> could be a real time-waster to the ClamAV team who have to frequently
>> deal with false positives and other proven malware, rather than the
>> potential malware I submit.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> -Dan Q
>>

OK, good to know I'm not annoying you or being ignored by you. I know a
lot of those spam messages are similar. A lot of times my e-mail
provider removes the attachment from the message after a few days.

Keep up the great work,

-- 

-Dan Q

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