Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Rob MacGregor
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:01:48 -0400, Samuel Benzaquen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I can also say that they don't want to compete against commercial AV vendors
 as I have read here 2^32 times that we should use not _only_ clamav, but a
 list of AVs to improve the chances to catch malware.

Best practice for security always involves defence in depth.  Basing
all your protection on a single AV product, given that *none* of them
are 100% effective, would be short sighted (and particularly given the
current spate of attacks on AV products).

Personally, I use clamav as the first line of defence.  It's rare for
anything to slip through, but it happens (well, twice so far - and in
each case by the time I reviewed the situation a signature had already
been released).

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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Dennis Davis
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Rob MacGregor wrote:

 From: Rob MacGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: ClamAV users ML clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:58:17 +
 Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?
 Reply-To: ClamAV users ML clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
 
 On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:01:48 -0400, Samuel Benzaquen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 
  I can also say that they don't want to compete against
  commercial AV vendors as I have read here 2^32 times that we
  should use not _only_ clamav, but a list of AVs to improve the
  chances to catch malware.

 Best practice for security always involves defence in depth.
 Basing all your protection on a single AV product, given that
 *none* of them are 100% effective, would be short sighted (and
 particularly given the current spate of attacks on AV products).

I believe this is what the commercial anti-virus company,
MessageLabs, does.  When I spoke to them a few years ago, they had
licenses for five anti-virus products.  Messages were fed through
the three they considered the best.

 Personally, I use clamav as the first line of defence.  It's rare
 for anything to slip through, but it happens (well, twice so far -
 and in each case by the time I reviewed the situation a signature
 had already been released).

We've a site licence for Sophos so I've been using this on our
mail servers for some time.  I've just started using ClamAV in
addition to Sophos and I'm very favourably impressed.  Statistics
for the viruses detected for the past week, 15th March to 21st
March, are appended below.  The table shows a significant number of
phishing attempts being rejected.  ClamAV also seems to be picking
up everything that Sophos detects.

I'll have to start quarantining suspect material that's only
detected by one virus scanner.  For example:


Virus  Count
-  -
Worm.Lovgate.Z ClamAV 29
Worm.Mydoom.M ClamAV  21
Worm.Lovgate.X ClamAV  2
Worm.Mytob.C-2 ClamAV  2
Worm.SomeFool.N ClamAV 2
Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1 ClamAV 1
Worm.SomeFool.P ClamAV 1


where stuff is only being detected by ClamAV would warrant closer
inspection.


Viruses detected between 15th March 2005 and 21st March 2005


Virus  Count
-  -
W32/Netsky-P ClamAV/Sophos   640
W32/Netsky-D ClamAV/Sophos   485
W32/MyDoom-O ClamAV/Sophos   150
HTML.Phishing.Bank-1 ClamAV  126
W32/Lovgate-V ClamAV/Sophos   47
W32/Bagle-BK ClamAV/Sophos40
W32/MyDoom-N ClamAV/Sophos37
W32/Bagle-Zip ClamAV/Sophos   30
W32/Netsky-Q ClamAV/Sophos30
Worm.Lovgate.Z ClamAV 29
HTML.Phishing.Bank-107 ClamAV 27
W32/Bagle-AG ClamAV/Sophos26
W32/Netsky-AE ClamAV/Sophos   23
Worm.Mydoom.M ClamAV  21
W32/Gibe-F ClamAV/Sophos  20
HTML.Phishing.Bank-83 ClamAV  17
HTML.Phishing.Postcard-3 ClamAV   16
W32/Lovgate-X ClamAV/Sophos   16
W32/Netsky-X ClamAV/Sophos16
W32/Bagle-AI ClamAV/Sophos15
HTML.Phishing.Bank-60 ClamAV  13
W32/Bagle-N ClamAV/Sophos 13
HTML.Phishing.Pay-14 ClamAV   12
W32/Netsky-AB ClamAV/Sophos   12
W32/Netsky-Y ClamAV/Sophos12
W32/MyDoom-AR ClamAV/Sophos9
HTML.Phishing.Auction-16 ClamAV8
HTML.Phishing.Auction-28 ClamAV8
HTML.Phishing.Bank-52 ClamAV   8
W32/Bagle-AF ClamAV/Sophos 8
W32/Lovgate-AJ ClamAV/Sophos   8
HTML.Phishing.Bank-106 ClamAV  7
HTML.Phishing.Bank-49 ClamAV   7
W32/Netsky-C ClamAV/Sophos 7
W32/NetskyD-Dam ClamAV/Sophos  7
W32/Zafi-D ClamAV/Sophos   7
HTML.Phishing.Bank-131 ClamAV  6
HTML.Phishing.Bank-57 ClamAV   6
HTML.Phishing.Bank-98 ClamAV   6
W32/Netsky-B ClamAV/Sophos 5
W32/Netsky-J ClamAV/Sophos 5
W32/Sober-K ClamAV/Sophos  5
HTML.Phishing.Auction-17 ClamAV4
HTML.Phishing.Auction-19 ClamAV4
HTML.Phishing.Pay-11 ClamAV

Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 at 12:47:54 -0600, Sam wrote:
 
 How does one go about getting the text for JS.Scramble to put into the 
 user.db file? Is there a location for strings that have been pulled out?
 

If you mean JS.Spam.Scramble.A, please find it attached.

Disclaimer: use it at your own risk.

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JS.Spam.Scramble.A 
(Clam)=3c736372697074206c616e67756167653d224a617661536372697074223e*203d206e657720417272617928*203d206e657720417272617928*293b*3b0a666f7228*2b2b290a20*202b20537472696e672e66726f6d43686172436f646528*646f63756d656e742e777269746528*3c2f7363726970743e
JS.Spam.Scramble.A-mail 
(Clam)=3c736372697074206c616e67756167653d3344224a617661536372697074223e*3d3344206e657720417272617928*293b*3d3344206e657720417272617928*666f7228*2b2b29*202b20537472696e672e66726f6d43686172436f646528*5d205e*646f63756d656e742e777269746528*3c2f7363726970743e
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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 21, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Brian Morrison wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:06:02 +0100 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Mehnle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian Morrison wrote:
Julian Mehnle wrote:
Probably more like: can we have 'technical-threats.cvd' and
'non-technical-threats.cvd' instead of 'main.cvd'?
You don't give up do you? ;-)
Not until someone convincingly explains to me why my request for a
practical option to distinguish between technical and non-technical
threats (i.e. exploitation of technical flaws in software vs.
exploitation of end-user naiveté) is inappropriate.
I'm not commenting on your correctness, merely on your staying power.
For a moment I thought this was spam...
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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 22, 2005, at 6:35 AM, Dennis Davis wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Rob MacGregor wrote:
From: Rob MacGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ClamAV users ML clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:58:17 +
Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?
Reply-To: ClamAV users ML clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:01:48 -0400, Samuel Benzaquen 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can also say that they don't want to compete against
commercial AV vendors as I have read here 2^32 times that we
should use not _only_ clamav, but a list of AVs to improve the
chances to catch malware.
Best practice for security always involves defence in depth.
Basing all your protection on a single AV product, given that
*none* of them are 100% effective, would be short sighted (and
particularly given the current spate of attacks on AV products).
I believe this is what the commercial anti-virus company,
MessageLabs, does.  When I spoke to them a few years ago, they had
licenses for five anti-virus products.  Messages were fed through
the three they considered the best.
You're saying a commercial AV vendor is using competitor's AV products 
in addition to their own to protect their systems?

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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 22, 2005, at 4:58 AM, Rob MacGregor wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:01:48 -0400, Samuel Benzaquen 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can also say that they don't want to compete against commercial AV 
vendors
as I have read here 2^32 times that we should use not _only_ clamav, 
but a
list of AVs to improve the chances to catch malware.
Best practice for security always involves defence in depth.  Basing
all your protection on a single AV product, given that *none* of them
are 100% effective, would be short sighted (and particularly given the
current spate of attacks on AV products).
Personally, my gripe is that the product is called ClamAV.  If it's 
expanding it's mission to protect people from everything called 
malware, I'd change the name to something that indicates it's a 
malware detector and not a virus detector.  Phishing scams are *not* 
viruses.  Maybe change it's name to ClaMal.  It'll make the O'Reilly 
book cover look interesting, too.

But this would probably never happen.  *shrug*
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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Dennis Davis
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

 From: Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: ClamAV users ML clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:40:18 -0500
 Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

...

  I believe this is what the commercial anti-virus company,
  MessageLabs, does.  When I spoke to them a few years ago, they
  had licenses for five anti-virus products.  Messages were fed
  through the three they considered the best.

 You're saying a commercial AV vendor is using competitor's AV
 products in addition to their own to protect their systems?

They aren't, as far as I'm aware, a commercial AV vendor.  Instead
they offer a managed email service which provides anti-virus and
andti-spam facilities.  See:

http://www.messagelabs.com/

for details.  Note that:

http://www.messagelabs.com/services/antivirus/detail/default.asp#features

includes:

  Anti-Virus combines Skeptic's predictive technology with multiple
  commercial scanners to detect and combat against viruses entering
  and leaving your organization
-- 
Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   Phone: +44 1225 386101
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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Sam
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Tomasz Papszun wrote:

 On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 at 12:47:54 -0600, Sam wrote:
  
  How does one go about getting the text for JS.Scramble to put into the 
  user.db file? Is there a location for strings that have been pulled out?
  
 
 If you mean JS.Spam.Scramble.A, please find it attached.
 
 Disclaimer: use it at your own risk.

Thanks Tomas!

(I'm a little worried now though with your disclaimer... :)  Was it just 
getting false positives, or did it cause stability issues?)

Thanks again
Sam


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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread BitFuzzy
Bart Silverstrim wrote:
Personally, my gripe is that the product is called ClamAV.  If it's 
expanding it's mission to protect people from everything called 
malware, I'd change the name to something that indicates it's a 
malware detector and not a virus detector.  Phishing scams are *not* 
viruses.  Maybe change it's name to ClaMal.  It'll make the O'Reilly 
book cover look interesting, too.

But this would probably never happen.  *shrug*
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I can't believe this is still going on! This got old fast the last 
time it was discussed.

This isn't about detecting messages concerning Viagra, or getting 
27,000,000 by helping some yutz in Nigeria.

The way I see it, any item regardless of it's delivery method that has 
the potential to do harm financially or otherwise should be stopped 
(IMHO) by the AV.
These messages are running out of control. They are clever, and when 
used in conjunction with their associated websites are very hard to 
identify it from the real thing.

ClamAV isn't the only agent that detects Phishing attempts. Mcafee, 
PcCillin, etc detect these attempts why would anyone expect ClamAV to do 
less

I may be thinking of something else here, but if memory serves the dev 
team will be providing a method for you (or anyone) not wanting these 
detected, to disable it.

and with that the debate should be ended.
BF
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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 22, 2005, at 8:05 AM, Dennis Davis wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
From: Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ClamAV users ML clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:40:18 -0500
Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?
...
I believe this is what the commercial anti-virus company,
MessageLabs, does.  When I spoke to them a few years ago, they
had licenses for five anti-virus products.  Messages were fed
through the three they considered the best.
You're saying a commercial AV vendor is using competitor's AV
products in addition to their own to protect their systems?
They aren't, as far as I'm aware, a commercial AV vendor.  Instead
they offer a managed email service which provides anti-virus and
andti-spam facilities.  See:
http://www.messagelabs.com/
for details.  Note that:
http://www.messagelabs.com/services/antivirus/detail/ 
default.asp#features

includes:
  Anti-Virus combines Skeptic's predictive technology with multiple
  commercial scanners to detect and combat against viruses entering
  and leaving your organization
Oops! My bad :-)
Thanks for the info!
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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 22, 2005, at 9:43 AM, BitFuzzy wrote:
Bart Silverstrim wrote:
Personally, my gripe is that the product is called ClamAV.  If it's 
expanding it's mission to protect people from everything called 
malware, I'd change the name to something that indicates it's a 
malware detector and not a virus detector.  Phishing scams are *not* 
viruses.  Maybe change it's name to ClaMal.  It'll make the O'Reilly 
book cover look interesting, too.

But this would probably never happen.  *shrug*

I can't believe this is still going on! This got old fast the last 
time it was discussed.

This isn't about detecting messages concerning Viagra, or getting 
27,000,000 by helping some yutz in Nigeria.

The way I see it, any item regardless of it's delivery method that has 
the potential to do harm financially or otherwise should be stopped 
(IMHO) by the AV.
These messages are running out of control. They are clever, and when 
used in conjunction with their associated websites are very hard to 
identify it from the real thing.

ClamAV isn't the only agent that detects Phishing attempts. Mcafee, 
PcCillin, etc detect these attempts why would anyone expect ClamAV to 
do less

I may be thinking of something else here, but if memory serves the dev 
team will be providing a method for you (or anyone) not wanting these 
detected, to disable it.

and with that the debate should be ended.
Please, calm down.  I wasn't arguing one thing or the other.  I just 
expressed an opinion.  Why should it be that just because you don't 
like to hear the opinion that anyone who shares it must shut up, when 
this list is monitored by people who may or may not want feedback from 
the users?  You're implying that I should shut up with my opinion then 
you go on to express your own.  Geez.

I wasn't even saying disable it.  I had said, consistent with the 
participation in the past mail list war, that if ClamAV were going to 
start detecting non-virus attacks and stop things that were aimed at 
people who should generally know better by now than to fall for 
scammers and baiters, then it would be better aesthetically if you 
didn't advertise as an anti-VIRUS and instead as an anti-MALWARE 
program, as that is what it was migrating it's role to.  Saying the 
neighbors are doing the same thing doesn't help either, since I've 
griped about that as well.  If you're a malware detector, do the search 
engines a favor and advertise the program as such.  It's bad enough 
that people are sloppy with terminology and concepts go way over users 
heads without making it worse by contributing to the fuzzy definitions.

No debate.  Opinion.  As I also stated in the past it's ultimately up 
to the developers.  Getting a bug up your butt about it will only give 
you a stroke or heart attack.  I'm not a developer and lack the skill 
to fork the project and even if I could, I lack the resources to host 
it...so I use what the developers offer.  They do a very good job in 
the first place.  Doesn't mean I don't differ in opinion once in awhile 
with how things are done, but oh well!

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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 at  8:33:09 -0600, Sam wrote:
 On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Tomasz Papszun wrote:
 
  If you mean JS.Spam.Scramble.A, please find it attached.
  
  Disclaimer: use it at your own risk.
 
 Thanks Tomas!
 
 (I'm a little worried now though with your disclaimer... :)  Was it just 
 getting false positives, or did it cause stability issues?)
 

No stability issues.
Also, I don't remember any FPs (when those signatures were in the
database, but they weren't very long there).
AFAIR, they were removed because of principles.

And the disclaimer is because those signatures aren't in the official
database and I sent them just because you asked for, not because I'm
encouraging anybody to use them.

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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread BitFuzzy
Julian Mehnle wrote:
I can't believe you still didn't get the point.
This is NOT about removing ClamAV's capacity for detecting phishing
attacks, little yellow rubber ducks in PNG images, or whatever else.  This
is about making it _optional_, for those people who don't want certain
types of malware to be scanned for.
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And they're adding it. So why is the issue festering?
I understand people want to post their views (as they should). But this 
topic in particular has and will end up in a never ending loop, that 
tends to be worse than Linux vs Windows debates.

It died out once, and I hope it does so again, quickly

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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Ken Jones

 Julian Mehnle wrote:

 I can't believe you still didn't get the point.

This is NOT about removing ClamAV's capacity for detecting phishing
attacks, little yellow rubber ducks in PNG images, or whatever else.
 This
is about making it _optional_, for those people who don't want certain
types of malware to be scanned for.

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 And they're adding it. So why is the issue festering?

 I understand people want to post their views (as they should). But this
 topic in particular has and will end up in a never ending loop, that
 tends to be worse than Linux vs Windows debates.

 It died out once, and I hope it does so again, quickly



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I too have strong feelings on this subject, but it was hashed out a while
back, and should be let to die here. AMEN

ps: I still think that clamav is one of the finest open source projects
going and this list is the most level headed ... subject above excepted :)


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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread clamav
At 06:43 AM 3/22/2005, BitFuzzy wrote:
Bart Silverstrim wrote:
Personally, my gripe is that the product is called ClamAV.  If it's 
expanding it's mission to protect people from everything called 
malware, I'd change the name to something that indicates it's a malware 
detector and not a virus detector.  Phishing scams are *not* 
viruses.  Maybe change it's name to ClaMal.  It'll make the O'Reilly book 
cover look interesting, too.

But this would probably never happen.  *shrug*
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I can't believe this is still going on! This got old fast the last time 
it was discussed.

This isn't about detecting messages concerning Viagra, or getting 
27,000,000 by helping some yutz in Nigeria.

The way I see it, any item regardless of it's delivery method that has the 
potential to do harm financially or otherwise should be stopped (IMHO) by 
the AV.
um, reread what you just wrote. 'any item regardless of it's delivery 
method that  has the potential to do harm financially or otherwise'. let's 
see, little old ladies emailing their bank account information to MRS. 
MIRIAM SESE SEKO, LATE OF THE CHIEF PETROLEUM RESERVES OFFICE OF NIGERIA, 
doesn't pose the potential to do harm financially? How about V1c0d1n, a 
prescription drug, that if you order it from spam, chances are you'll never 
get it, because who in their right mind would file a complaint that they 
didn't get a prescription drug they ordered illegally over the net? No risk 
of financial harm there? what about a spam message for porn, and the poor 
yutz clicks the link and is sent instead to a kiddie porn site, and later 
his IP address is swept up by law enforcement and he goes to jail as a 
pedophile - doesn't fit your criteria?

your argument isn't consistent.
Paul Theodoropoulos
http://www.anastrophe.com
http://www.smileglobal.com
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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:


 your argument isn't consistent.


 Paul Theodoropoulos

Here we go again.

dp
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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread clamav
At 10:08 AM 3/22/2005, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

 your argument isn't consistent.


 Paul Theodoropoulos
Here we go again.
Perhaps this is why it keeps coming up. An action based upon a flawed or 
inconsistent stance tends to do that. Why aren't we blocking Nigeria Scams? 
people have lots tens of thousands of dollars on that.

but whatever. discussing the relevance of this choice will be moot once the 
choice is offered to the user. so one will be able to choose whether to use 
clam ANTIVIRUS to detect non-VIRUS phishing scams if they want.

Paul Theodoropoulos
http://www.anastrophe.com
http://www.smileglobal.com
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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread BitFuzzy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
um, reread what you just wrote. 'any item regardless of it's delivery 
method that  has the potential to do harm financially or otherwise'. 
let's see, little old ladies emailing their bank account information 
to MRS. MIRIAM SESE SEKO, LATE OF THE CHIEF PETROLEUM RESERVES OFFICE 
OF NIGERIA, doesn't pose the potential to do harm financially? How 
about V1c0d1n, a prescription drug, that if you order it from spam, 
chances are you'll never get it, because who in their right mind would 
file a complaint that they didn't get a prescription drug they ordered 
illegally over the net? No risk of financial harm there? what about a 
spam message for porn, and the poor yutz clicks the link and is sent 
instead to a kiddie porn site, and later his IP address is swept up by 
law enforcement and he goes to jail as a pedophile - doesn't fit your 
criteria?

your argument isn't consistent.
You're right it isn't consistent, that's because the issue isn't black 
and white, it's a clammy shade of gray.

The difference between what's being detected as phishing attempts is 
that they are crafted to make you believe you are at 
http://www.your-bank.com, ebay.com, paypal.com, etc. They are in most 
cases very convincing, thus not only the foolish can fall prey.  (I know 
very savvy people who fell for these)

The other forms, mentioned.do pose the exact same threat, however there 
is a big difference the victim here was just being gullible.
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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
BitFuzzy wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 The difference between what's being detected as phishing attempts is
 that they are crafted to make you believe you are at
 http://www.your-bank.com, ebay.com, paypal.com, etc. They are in most
 cases very convincing, thus not only the foolish can fall prey.  (I
 know very savvy people who fell for these)
 
 The other forms, mentioned.do pose the exact same threat, however
 there is a big difference the victim here was just being gullible.

In my opinion, the difference between
1) a virus
2) a phish, a Nigerian scam, a spyware, an adware, etc.

is that viruses SPREAD - that is, they propagate themselves to others through 
the infected party.

As such, there are policy decisions against viruses that are appropriate in 
scenarios where such policies would be inappropriate against mere phishes.

Therefore - in my opinion - ClamAV should limit itself to detecting (and 
rejecting) threats of the first kind by default.  If an option is added to 
detect and reject threats of the second kind, that can only be a good thing - 
so long as it is an option.

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Julian Mehnle
BitFuzzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 The difference between what's being detected as phishing attempts is
 that they are crafted to make you believe you are at
 http://www.your-bank.com, ebay.com, paypal.com, etc. They are in most
 cases very convincing, thus not only the foolish can fall prey.  (I know
 very savvy people who fell for these)

Using heuristics (i.e. malware signatures) to re-actively detect typical 
_formal_ characteristics of faked messages is bound to
result in significant failure rates, either in false positives or in false 
negatives.

The way to combat phishing is to employ sender authentication methods such as 
SPF, DomainKeys, and public-key message cryptography.
Both service providers (banks, eBay, PayPal, etc.) and users need to learn to 
use the right tools for the job.  Neither SpamAssassin
nor ClamAV are the right tools.

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Julian Mehnle wrote:
 The way to combat phishing is to employ sender authentication methods
 such as SPF, DomainKeys, and public-key message cryptography.

This is unfortunately debatable.  SPF, DomainKeys, cryptography, SenderID, etc. 
can only work on info in the message.

Nothing stops people from registering a domain like onlinebanking.example and 
then sending out - perfectly legitimately - from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Julian Mehnle
Matthew van Eerde wrote:
 Julian Mehnle wrote:
  The way to combat phishing is to employ sender authentication methods
  such as SPF, DomainKeys, and public-key message cryptography.

 This is unfortunately debatable.  SPF, DomainKeys, cryptography,
 SenderID, etc. can only work on info in the message.

 Nothing stops people from registering a domain like
 onlinebanking.example and then sending out - perfectly legitimately -
 from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Still the sender is not @citibank.com.

Also, Service providers can hand out their PGP or S/MIME public key to
their customers (by postal mail or similar) and instruct them to discard
any messages that are not signed by that key.

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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:49:40PM +0100, Julian Mehnle wrote:
 Matthew van Eerde wrote:
  Julian Mehnle wrote:
   The way to combat phishing is to employ sender authentication methods
   such as SPF, DomainKeys, and public-key message cryptography.
 
  This is unfortunately debatable.  SPF, DomainKeys, cryptography,
  SenderID, etc. can only work on info in the message.
 
  Nothing stops people from registering a domain like
  onlinebanking.example and then sending out - perfectly legitimately -
  from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 Still the sender is not @citibank.com.

But I could form a Committee on Income Tax Inequities and register
citi.us.

 Also, Service providers can hand out their PGP or S/MIME public key to
 their customers (by postal mail or similar) and instruct them to discard
 any messages that are not signed by that key.

Wow, absolutely brilliant!  They can send them in the pre-approved
credit card offers!  Maybe Congress should pass a law that they have to
provide armored pgp public keys in the disclaimers!  Oh, and PGP would
have to be given to everyone who has a computer!

While waiting, breathlessly, for Congress to take up your solution to
the phishing problem, I'll continue to delete any mail that remotely
smells like spam or malware, using as many tools as I can to search and
destroy.

You are, of course, free to delete only things that clamav names as
^worm\.  If the dev team mis-names a technical exploit, then that's just
your tough luck.
 
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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Brian Morrison
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:55:38 +0100 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Mehnle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  The way to combat phishing is to employ sender authentication methods
  such as SPF, DomainKeys, and public-key message cryptography.

SPF is not a good way to do this, it does practically nothing to ensure
that the source is genuine, merely that it originated from an authorised
host.

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Julian Mehnle
Daniel J McDonald wrote:
 Julian Mehnle wrote:
  Matthew van Eerde wrote:
   Nothing stops people from registering a domain like
   onlinebanking.example and then sending out - perfectly legitimately
   - from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  Still the sender is not @citibank.com.

 But I could form a Committee on Income Tax Inequities and register
 citi.us.

Granted, preventing sender address forgery isn't sufficient for solving
the phishing problem.

  Also, Service providers can hand out their PGP or S/MIME public key to
  their customers (by postal mail or similar) and instruct them to
  discard any messages that are not signed by that key.

 Wow, absolutely brilliant!

Not at all.  But effective.  And absolutely feasible.

 They can send them in the pre-approved credit card offers!

Certificate authorities don't issue certificates (public keys) reading
Citigroup, Silver Spring, Maryland, US to unverified strangers.  The way
the certificate reaches the end-user is largely irrelevant.

 Oh, and PGP would have to be given to everyone who has a computer!

Most widely-used mail clients do at least support S/MIME out of the box.

 While waiting, breathlessly, for Congress to take up your solution to
 the phishing problem, I'll continue to delete any mail that remotely
 smells like spam or malware, using as many tools as I can to search and
 destroy.

And nobody wants to take that option away from you.

 You are, of course, free to delete only things that clamav names as
 ^worm\.

No, because ClamAV reports at maximum _one_ malware signature match per
scanned object.  If it reports a match for /\.phishing\./, that doesn't
mean the object doesn't also contain some other (real) malware.

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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Trog
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 11:03 -0500, Robert Stampfli wrote:

 My question: Does the ClamAV team want examples of these
 phishing emails submitted to them through their
 http://cgi.clamav.net/sendvirus.cgi interface?
 

You can submit them via the web interface.

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Trog wrote:
 Robert Stampfli wrote:
  My question: Does the ClamAV team want examples of these
  phishing emails submitted to them through their
  http://cgi.clamav.net/sendvirus.cgi interface?
 
 You can submit them via the web interface.

Can I submit my spam, too?  It is bad, so it should be stopped by ClamAV.

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Trog
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 16:06 +0100, Julian Mehnle wrote:
 Trog wrote:
  Robert Stampfli wrote:
   My question: Does the ClamAV team want examples of these
   phishing emails submitted to them through their
   http://cgi.clamav.net/sendvirus.cgi interface?
  
  You can submit them via the web interface.
 
 Can I submit my spam, too?  It is bad, so it should be stopped by ClamAV.

No.

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Trog wrote:
 Julian Mehnle wrote:
  Trog wrote:
   Robert Stampfli wrote:
My question: Does the ClamAV team want examples of these
phishing emails submitted to them through their
http://cgi.clamav.net/sendvirus.cgi interface?
   
   You can submit them via the web interface.
  
  Can I submit my spam, too?  It is bad, so it should be stopped by
  ClamAV. 
 
 No.

Uh, thanks.  This makes real sense, I wonder why I didn't get it before.

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Sam
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, McDonald, Dan wrote:
 They don't think spam, even spam with embedded java script to obscure the
 nature of the spam, is malware.  That was the JS.Scramble pattern that was
 quite effective at killing off lots of spam, but they chose to remove it,
 and that's their right.  Hopefully someone took the signature and submitted
 it to the spamassassin crew.

Is there a way to manually add this signature back in (in a way so that 
when new signatures are obtained from freshclam it's not over-written)? 
Probably not, but I thought I'd ask. :)

Thanks
Sam

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread McDonald, Dan
Julian Mehnle wrote:
Trog wrote:
 Julian Mehnle wrote:
  Trog wrote:
   Robert Stampfli wrote:
My question: Does the ClamAV team want examples of these
phishing emails submitted to them through their
http://cgi.clamav.net/sendvirus.cgi interface?
   
   You can submit them via the web interface.
  
  Can I submit my spam, too?  It is bad, so it should be stopped by
  ClamAV. 
 
 No.

Uh, thanks.  This makes real sense, I wonder why I didn't get it before.

There have been long philosophical discussions about the distinction between
spam, phishing, and various malware.  The developers think phishing is
malware, and it's there resources being put into killing them, so let them!

They don't think spam, even spam with embedded java script to obscure the
nature of the spam, is malware.  That was the JS.Scramble pattern that was
quite effective at killing off lots of spam, but they chose to remove it,
and that's their right.  Hopefully someone took the signature and submitted
it to the spamassassin crew.

I'd rather not endure another one of these long discussions about
definitions of malware.  Trog and others have graciously agreed to identify
phishes, as have other groups (I use the ph surbl list quite effectively
for killing off phishes too, but defense in depth, I always say.)  Don't
look a gift horse in the mouth, unless you are living in Troy.


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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Sam wrote:
 On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, McDonald, Dan wrote:
 They don't think spam, even spam with embedded java script to
 obscure the nature of the spam, is malware.  That was the
 JS.Scramble pattern that was quite effective at killing off lots of
 spam, but they chose to remove it, and that's their right. 
 Hopefully someone took the signature and submitted it to the
 spamassassin crew. 
 
 Is there a way to manually add this signature back in (in a way so
 that when new signatures are obtained from freshclam it's not
 over-written)? Probably not, but I thought I'd ask. :)

Sounds like a feature request to me... can we have a user.cvd file (in 
addition to main.cvd and daily.cvd)

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Trog
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 08:49 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Sam wrote:
  On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, McDonald, Dan wrote:
  They don't think spam, even spam with embedded java script to
  obscure the nature of the spam, is malware.  That was the
  JS.Scramble pattern that was quite effective at killing off lots of
  spam, but they chose to remove it, and that's their right. 
  Hopefully someone took the signature and submitted it to the
  spamassassin crew. 
  
  Is there a way to manually add this signature back in (in a way so
  that when new signatures are obtained from freshclam it's not
  over-written)? Probably not, but I thought I'd ask. :)
 
 Sounds like a feature request to me... can we have a user.cvd file (in 
 addition to main.cvd and daily.cvd)

The features been there for a long time already. Read the documentation.

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Trog wrote:
 On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 08:49 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Sounds like a feature request to me... can we have a user.cvd file
 (in addition to main.cvd and daily.cvd) 
 
 The features been there for a long time already. Read the
 documentation. 

Relevant documentation:

http://www.clamav.net/faq.html - #23

Q: I can't wait for you to update the database! I need to use the new signature 
NOW!

A: No problem, save your own signatures in a text file with .db extension. Put 
it in the same dir where the .cvd files are located. ClamAV will load it after 
the official .cvd files. You need not to sign the .db file. 

I presume clamd needs to be HUP'd?

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Matthew van Eerde wrote:
 Sounds like a feature request to me... can we have a user.cvd file
 (in addition to main.cvd and daily.cvd)

Probably more like: can we have 'technical-threats.cvd' and
'non-technical-threats.cvd' instead of 'main.cvd'?

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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Brian Morrison
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:07:31 +0100 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Mehnle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Matthew van Eerde wrote:
  Sounds like a feature request to me... can we have a user.cvd file
  (in addition to main.cvd and daily.cvd)
 
 Probably more like: can we have 'technical-threats.cvd' and
 'non-technical-threats.cvd' instead of 'main.cvd'?

You don't give up do you?

;-)

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Sam
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Trog wrote:

 On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 08:49 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Sam wrote:
   On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, McDonald, Dan wrote:
   They don't think spam, even spam with embedded java script to
   obscure the nature of the spam, is malware.  That was the
   JS.Scramble pattern that was quite effective at killing off lots of
   spam, but they chose to remove it, and that's their right. 
   Hopefully someone took the signature and submitted it to the
   spamassassin crew. 
   
   Is there a way to manually add this signature back in (in a way so
   that when new signatures are obtained from freshclam it's not
   over-written)? Probably not, but I thought I'd ask. :)
  
  Sounds like a feature request to me... can we have a user.cvd file (in 
  addition to main.cvd and daily.cvd)
 
 The features been there for a long time already. Read the documentation.

How does one go about getting the text for JS.Scramble to put into the 
user.db file? Is there a location for strings that have been pulled out?

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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Matt Fretwell
Julian Mehnle wrote:

 Brian Morrison wrote:
  Julian Mehnle wrote:
   Probably more like: can we have 'technical-threats.cvd' and
   'non-technical-threats.cvd' instead of 'main.cvd'?
 
  You don't give up do you? ;-)
 
 Not until someone convincingly explains to me why my request for a
 practical option to distinguish between technical and non-technical
 threats (i.e. exploitation of technical flaws in software vs.
 exploitation of end-user naiveté) is inappropriate.


 This discussion waged for ages the last time it was brought up. Do me a
favour and just read the archives. It was mind numbing back then, and I'm
sure it will not be any less so now.


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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Matt Fretwell wrote:
 Julian Mehnle wrote:
  Brian Morrison wrote:
   You don't give up do you? ;-)
 
  Not until someone convincingly explains to me why my request for a
  practical option to distinguish between technical and non-technical
  threats (i.e. exploitation of technical flaws in software vs.
  exploitation of end-user naiveté) is inappropriate.

 This discussion waged for ages the last time it was brought up. Do me a
 favour and just read the archives. It was mind numbing back then, and
 I'm sure it will not be any less so now.

I don't have to read the archives, I was the one who initiated the
mid-November monster thread (in a totally reasonable and non-inflammatory
way), and I have read all of it.

Most of my reasonable points have remained unanswered, though, apart from
flames that effectively amount to shut up.  For instance:

Julian Mehnle wrote:
| Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|  Getting back to the somewhat original question, if you download the
|  signatures.pdf from the Clam website, that gives you a general listing
|  of the different classes of various virii/malware naming conventions.
|  That should give you an idea of which parts of the database you may
|  wish to remove.
|
| Thanks for your constructive reply.
|
| If you mean section 3.5, unfortunately there is not mention of the
| Phishing prefix, so obviously this list is not complete.  The fact
| that a Joke prefix (for hoaxes) is also listed there makes me worry
| how many more supposed malware categories are unconditionally
| detected by ClamAV which I would not want to be detected as malware...
|
| Also please keep in mind that a modular sig db would relieve ClamAV
| users from downloading signatures they don't plan using.  Having to
| remove unwanted sigs yourself requires you to download all existing
| sigs.

Julian Mehnle wrote:
| To those of you who argue that ClamAV should detect phishing attacks
| even though tools like SpamAssassin are designed and inherently better
| suited for doing that, I'd like to say that you will never really be
| able to abandon SpamAssassin  Co. anyway.  ClamAV will never be able
| to replace SpamAssassin without becoming SpamAssassin.
|
| Bit Fuzzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|  I can't believe this one subject can create such a mess.
|
| I absolutely concur.  Considering that exactly _no one_ here demanded
| that ClamAV abandon its capacity for detecting phishing attacks, little
| yellow rubber ducks in PNG images, or whatever else, the uproar is truly
| ludicrous.  What was actually requested is that there be an _option_ not
| to scan for certain classes of malware.  No one would be disadvantaged
| by that.

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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:27:46 +0100
Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 | I absolutely concur.  Considering that exactly _no one_ here
 demanded | that ClamAV abandon its capacity for detecting phishing
 attacks, little | yellow rubber ducks in PNG images, or whatever else,
 the uproar is truly | ludicrous.  What was actually requested is that
 there be an _option_ not | to scan for certain classes of malware.  No
 one would be disadvantaged | by that.

Such an option will be available in 0.90.

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Brian Morrison wrote:
 Julian Mehnle wrote:
  Probably more like: can we have 'technical-threats.cvd' and
  'non-technical-threats.cvd' instead of 'main.cvd'?

 You don't give up do you? ;-)

Not until someone convincingly explains to me why my request for a
practical option to distinguish between technical and non-technical
threats (i.e. exploitation of technical flaws in software vs. exploitation
of end-user naiveté) is inappropriate.

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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Todd Lyons
Julian Mehnle wanted us to know:

| To those of you who argue that ClamAV should detect phishing attacks
| even though tools like SpamAssassin are designed and inherently better

Perhaps marketing speak would better suit you.  McAffee detects phishing
emails.  What better way to give *ALL* AV competitors a big weapon about
why you should not use ClamAV than to disable those things that are
built-in protection to the big commercial vendors.

On the other hand, I do like the idea of seperate db's for seperate
functions.  It just seems very unixy.  But at this point I fully stand
behind the direction that the devs are taking clamav.
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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Matt Fretwell
Julian Mehnle wrote:

 flames that effectively amount to shut up.


 Obviously not suggestive enough, though :)


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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Tomasz Kojm wrote:
 Julian Mehnle wrote:
 | I absolutely concur.  Considering that exactly _no one_ here demanded
 | that ClamAV abandon its capacity for detecting phishing attacks,
 | little yellow rubber ducks in PNG images, or whatever else, the uproar
 | is truly ludicrous.  What was actually requested is that there be an
 | _option_ not to scan for certain classes of malware.  No one would be
 | disadvantaged by that.

 Such an option will be available in 0.90.

Well, that is certainly a nice prospect!  Thanks a lot for not ignoring my
request.

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
Julian Mehnle said:
 Tomasz Kojm wrote:
 Julian Mehnle wrote:
 | I absolutely concur.  Considering that exactly _no one_ here demanded
 | that ClamAV abandon its capacity for detecting phishing attacks,
 | little yellow rubber ducks in PNG images, or whatever else, the uproar
 | is truly ludicrous.  What was actually requested is that there be an
 | _option_ not to scan for certain classes of malware.  No one would be
 | disadvantaged by that.

 Such an option will be available in 0.90.

 Well, that is certainly a nice prospect!  Thanks a lot for not ignoring my
 request.

That was pretty hard to do.

dp
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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Dennis Peterson wrote:
 Julian Mehnle said:
  Well, that is certainly a nice prospect!  Thanks a lot for not
  ignoring my request.

 That was pretty hard to do.

Yeah, people here keep telling me that, though they're not exactly
communicative about why that is.  All I've read is _I_ don't need what
you are proposing, so shut up or just plain shut up.  Little substance,
not very helpful, and certainly no reason for me (or anyone!) to stop
bringing up the issue.

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread clamav
At 12:43 PM 3/21/2005, Julian Mehnle wrote:
Dennis Peterson wrote:
 Julian Mehnle said:
  Well, that is certainly a nice prospect!  Thanks a lot for not
  ignoring my request.

 That was pretty hard to do.
Yeah, people here keep telling me that, though they're not exactly
communicative about why that is.  All I've read is _I_ don't need what
you are proposing, so shut up or just plain shut up.  Little substance,
not very helpful, and certainly no reason for me (or anyone!) to stop
bringing up the issue.
I'll chime in that while I have no objections to clamav doing phishing 
filtering, i also see providing the choice of whether or not to do it to be 
reasonable and benign.

Paul Theodoropoulos
http://www.anastrophe.com
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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
Julian Mehnle wrote:
Dennis Peterson wrote:
Julian Mehnle said:
Well, that is certainly a nice prospect!  Thanks a lot for not
ignoring my request.
That was pretty hard to do.

Yeah, people here keep telling me that, though they're not exactly
communicative about why that is.  All I've read is _I_ don't need what
you are proposing, so shut up or just plain shut up.  Little substance,
not very helpful, and certainly no reason for me (or anyone!) to stop
bringing up the issue.
Sounds like it was proper fodder for the dev list rather than this noob 
stumbling in the dark list.

dp
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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Samuel Benzaquen

 Yeah, people here keep telling me that, though they're not exactly
 communicative about why that is.  All I've read is _I_ don't need what
 you are proposing, so shut up or just plain shut up.  Little substance,
 not very helpful, and certainly no reason for me (or anyone!) to stop
 bringing up the issue.


I think the problem is simple math: Finite number of devs with finite time.
They have to use it in what they think will be more productive for the
majority of us.
The problem is that if you add another category to what it is supposed to
block, they will spend more time making sigs than they are spending now.
Which means that they will spend less time coding new and better features.

I can also say that they don't want to compete against commercial AV vendors
as I have read here 2^32 times that we should use not _only_ clamav, but a
list of AVs to improve the chances to catch malware.

Just a thought,

-Samuel

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RE: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Samuel Benzaquen wrote:
 I think the problem is simple math: Finite number of devs with finite
 time. They have to use it in what they think will be more productive
 for the majority of us.

Hey, I'd accept that for a reason, even though I haven't been the only one
who found the feature request valuable.  The dev time argument has never
really been brought up by anyone in the discussions, though, so I figured
this was not the reason why so many people hated the request.

 The problem is that if you add another category to what it is supposed
 to block, they will spend more time making sigs than they are spending
 now. Which means that they will spend less time coding new and better
 features.

(Perhaps you misunderstood the issue.  Nobody requested that ClamAV detect
another category of malware, but just that certain categories of what is
already being detected be configurable not to be detected.)

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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Matt Fretwell
Julian Mehnle wrote:

  I think the problem is simple math: Finite number of devs with finite
  time. They have to use it in what they think will be more productive
  for the majority of us.
 
 Hey, I'd accept that for a reason, even though I haven't been the only
 one who found the feature request valuable.  The dev time argument has
 never really been brought up by anyone in the discussions, though, so I
 figured this was not the reason why so many people hated the request.


 The reason it has probably never been mentioned is because most would
construe it as being common sense to realise that fact.
 (Unless of course, the Dev's have found the secret of time manipulation,
or have more arms than Shiva).


Matt
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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Brian Morrison
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:06:02 +0100 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Mehnle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Brian Morrison wrote:
  Julian Mehnle wrote:
   Probably more like: can we have 'technical-threats.cvd' and
   'non-technical-threats.cvd' instead of 'main.cvd'?
 
  You don't give up do you? ;-)
 
 Not until someone convincingly explains to me why my request for a
 practical option to distinguish between technical and non-technical
 threats (i.e. exploitation of technical flaws in software vs.
 exploitation of end-user naiveté) is inappropriate.

I'm not commenting on your correctness, merely on your staying power.

-- 

Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk

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Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Steffen Breitbach
Some people wrote some stuff:
 about SPAM or not. Again.
Okay, that's it. I'll unsubscribe. Bye!
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