Re: [Clamav-devel] Second ClamAV 1.0.0 release candidate AND updated packages for 0.105.1

2022-11-26 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 26 Nov 2022, Mark Allan via clamav-devel-requ...@lists.clamav.net wrote: I thought there was an issue with v1.0 rc2, as a comparison with a previous installation (0.104.1) on the same machine showed massively increased scan times. After about an hour of digging and

Re: [Clamav-devel] Second ClamAV 1.0.0 release candidate AND updated packages for 0.105.1

2022-11-19 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 19 Nov 2022, Mark Allan wrote: I'm trying to build the ClamAV 1.0.0 RC and saw this in the documentation "Some of the dependencies are optional if you elect to not build all of the command line applications, or elect to only build the libclamav library. Specifically:

[Clamav-devel] Trying to run ClamAV in PCF

2022-11-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 10 Nov 2022, Daniel Toomey wrote: Docker image is uploaded and starts, but fails with ?[OUT] Socket for clamd not found yet, retrying (0/1800) ...?. Is there a configuration setting that can be provided to pick a socket? I think a few people are using ClamAV with Docker,

Re: [Clamav-devel] [clamav-users] ClamAV 1.0.0 release candidate now available

2022-11-09 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 9 Nov 2022, Moosa Aslam wrote: I want to unsub from the mailing list of clamav please remove my email Mailing lists are usually "self-service". You usually subscribe by visiting a Web page somewhere or by sending a mail message to a list management bot. You usually

[Clamav-devel] Is there another interface to ClamAV aside from sockets?

2022-11-05 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, ClamAV is a toolkit. It provides several different tools and various ways to scan data. It's fairly well documented, both online at the official document site https://docs.clamav.net/ and in the classical 'man' pages. Because the various executables do different things they don't

Re: [Clamav-devel] Source build client

2021-10-17 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 17 Oct 2021, Fredrik wrote: I've been looking through the documentation to build ClamAV from source. However, I cannot find how to exclude e.g. freshclam and the daemon from the build if I want to make the build as lightweight as possible from a Server/Client perspective. As

[Clamav-devel] Yara language version, ClamAV documentation.

2021-05-24 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, The documentation on ClamAV's implementation of Yara points to http://plusvic.github.io/yara/ which describes several important differences between the different versions of what might be called the reference Yara engine. When we write Yara rules, it's obviously important to know

Re: [Clamav-devel] clamav-devel Digest, Vol 184, Issue 3

2021-05-03 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 3 May 2021, Aikansh Shukla wrote: We are facing error while integrating clamAV recipe (given below) in the Yocto. (We added all the depedency layers & package) https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/recipe/32867/ The link which you posted above seems to tell me that the

Re: [Clamav-devel] Subject lines are good.

2021-04-22 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 22 Apr 2021, Aikansh Shukla via clamav-devel wrote: I would like to ask that is clam AV available for Yocto for ARM64. My clamd server is ARM64 (Pi4B) so it's certainly possible to persuade ClamAV to run on the architecture. I had no trouble building it from source, you'll

[Clamav-devel] Message headers in virusdb mailing list.

2021-04-19 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, The daily messages from the virus update mailing list trigger warnings in my milter because they contain the header IronPort-HdrOrdr which my milter treats as bogus - many spambots invent bogus headers. Should this one be X-IronPort-HdrOrdr or am I missing something?

Re: [Clamav-devel] ClamAV? blog: ClamAV 0.103.2 security patch release

2021-04-11 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hello again, On Sun, 11 Apr 2021, Per Jessen wrote: Just to be clear - with 0.103.2: ldd /usr/lib64/libclamav.so linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7ffcdb1a7000) libbz2.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1 (0x7fe0864ff000) libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x7fe0862fb000)

Re: [Clamav-devel] ClamAV? blog: ClamAV 0.103.2 security patch release

2021-04-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 10 Apr 2021, Per Jessen wrote: When I built $SUBJ just now, I see libclammspack.so.0 => /home/per/workspace/clamav-0.103.2/libclamav/.libs/libclammspack.so.0 ie. with a fixed path ? How do I avoid that? Is this before 'make install'? After you install it I'd expect

Re: [Clamav-devel] [Feature request] Support Linux symlinks for all configuration and database folders

2021-03-23 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 23 Mar 2021, jean-christophe manciot wrote: On Ubuntu, freshclam 0.103.0+dfsg-3.1 does not support symlinks for any of the following: - /etc/clamav - /etc/ssl - /etc/ssl/certs - /var/lib/clamav If any of the aforementioned folders is a symlink, no database update by

Re: [Clamav-devel] dlopen using relative path for libclamunrar

2021-02-21 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, Mark Allan wrote: Ever since enabling the macOS hardened runtime for ClamAV, I've been getting the following error/warning message whenever I try to call any of the ClamAV binaries: LibClamAV Warning: Cannot dlopen libclamunrar_iface:

Re: [Clamav-devel] making ClamAV available to macOS users through the Apple App Store

2021-01-02 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 2 Jan 2021, Finn isme wrote: I am an ordinary user of macOS who has dabbled with Linux in the past. I wonder if your organization would be willing to make ClamAV and a ClamAV frontend available on the macOS store. For awhile now, Apple has a no-fee policy for non-profits as

Re: [Clamav-devel] Documentation tweaks.

2020-09-04 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi Joel, On Thu, 3 Sep 2020, Joel Esler wrote: On Sep 3, 2020, at 06:10, G.W. Haywood ... wrote: [1] The following appears at http://www.clamav.net/downloads . ... Perhaps the section could be reworded, something like: ... [2] In the 0.103.0-rc2 tarball, README.md says ... ... pull request

[Clamav-devel] Documentation tweaks.

2020-09-03 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, [1] The following appears at http://www.clamav.net/downloads . [quote] Virus Database For ClamAV to work properly, both the ClamAV engine and the ClamAV Virus Database (CVD) must be kept up to date. Freshclam should perform these updates automatically. Instructions for setting up

Re: [Clamav-devel] I want to make a manifest for Clamav in scoop bucket

2020-08-09 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 9 Aug 2020, ??? wrote: Is that allowed? I don't see why not, but there might well be restrictions which relate to what you are then allowed to do with it. If it is I want to get the hash of "clamav-0.102.4-win-x86-portable.zip" and "clamav-0.102.4-win-x64-portable.zip"

[Clamav-devel] ClamAV 0.102.3 - Can't allocate memory ERROR on macOS 10.15

2020-05-29 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Fri, 29 May 2020, Mark Allan wrote: ... testing 0.102.3 ... Can't allocate memory ERROR ... ... Removing the ... definition ... feels like ... the wrong solution ... Agreed. :) Has anyone else come up against this problem before, and do you know what I can do about it? No, I

Re: [Clamav-devel] static linked executable

2020-05-29 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Fri, 29 May 2020, Chirculescu Horia wrote: Is there any possibility to get a statically linked clamdscan executable? This question should really have gone to the users' list. Tried $ ./configure --enable-static ( as in https://www.clamav.net/documents/clamav-development ) but

Re: [Clamav-devel] ClamAV(R) blog: ClamAV 0.102.0 Release Candidate is now available

2019-10-05 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 5 Oct 2019, Micah Snyder wrote: ?On 10/4/19, 11:40 AM, ... G.W. Haywood ... wrote: >... >Perhaps it would be better to check for things which can be checked >quickly *before* loading nine million signatures. ... I suppose it's a bit of a poor excus

Re: [Clamav-devel] ClamAV(R) blog: ClamAV 0.102.0 Release Candidate is now available

2019-10-04 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, This came about today when I accidentally started a clamd with the configuration file of a clamd instance which was already running: Oct 4 16:16:24 mail6 clamd[13669]: Received 0 file descriptor(s) from systemd. Oct 4 16:16:24 mail6 clamd[13669]: clamd daemon 0.101.4 (OS: linux-gnu,

Re: [Clamav-devel] Best way to introduce feature to reduce memory footprint?

2019-09-09 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hello again, On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Markus Kolb wrote: Am 08.09.2019 18:35, schrieb G.W. Haywood: > Perhaps you haven't been reading recent posts on the users' list. Which thread topic do you mean? The "How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?"?

Re: [Clamav-devel] Best way to introduce feature to reduce memory footprint?

2019-09-08 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 8 Sep 2019, Markus Kolb wrote: I'd like to get some thoughts of reducing the memory footprint of clamav (clamd)... My thought: Once upon a time they used to say that hardware accounted for 90% of the cost of a computer system; then they used to say it was more like 50/50;

Re: [Clamav-devel] ClamAV for AlpineLinux

2019-08-31 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, Tran, Tri wrote: ... I am not sure that is correct or do I need to add more thing here. I do not use Docker, but I guess it depends on _exactly_ what you want to use ClamAV to do. If you were to tell us, that might help us to answer your questions. -- 73,

Re: [Clamav-devel] Are There a GPU Version

2019-08-26 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, Ji, Yuede wrote: I wonder whether there is a GPU-based pattern matching to improve the runtime performance? If there is, could someone point me to that? If not, has anyone thought about this or are there any blockers? I've thought about it. Quite a lot. :) On

Re: [Clamav-devel] Subject: Pure Perl milter for use with clamd.

2019-08-25 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi Micah, On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Micah Snyder wrote: This project sounds pretty cool. It wouldn't be something I would want to maintain as a part of the clamav repository. Personally I'm well versed in Python but I have almost no Perl experience. I suspect that you'll want to maintain

Re: [Clamav-devel] Pure Perl milter for use with clamd.

2019-08-21 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Sergey wrote: On Monday 19 August 2019, G.W. Haywood wrote: Tradeoffs .. .. Try looking to mailfromd: http://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/software/mailfromd/ I used mailfromd from 2009 to 2016, primarily for the simplicity of using its interface to GeoIP data: mail6

[Clamav-devel] Subject: Pure Perl milter for use with clamd.

2019-08-19 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, The subject: This is about scanning mail on a mailserver using clamd - specifically about a milter for interfacing clamd to an MTA. If you've no interest in such things, then this probably isn't for you. Thanks: ClamAV (specifically clamd, via clamav-milter) has been scanning small

Re: [Clamav-devel] Clam* build incompat with OpenSSL 1.1.0x ? patch available

2017-12-01 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Fri, 1 Dec 2017, pgndev wrote: I'm building clam 0.99.3/head, ... The build FAILs -- as it has for over a year -- when linking against OpenSSL 1.1.0x libs/api, due to reference of deprecated symbols, ... Mod'ing the build by applying changes similar to a 3rd-party patch ... also

Re: [Clamav-devel] Centralised Management Console for ClamaAV Clients

2016-05-28 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 28 May 2016, Traiano Welcome wrote: I manage a fleet of clamav client installations on desktops in multiple geographical regions and need a centralised console for: - monitoring the status of clam on all desktop computers the client is installed on, - forcing an update of

Re: [Clamav-devel] clamav-devel Digest, Vol 123, Issue 2

2015-03-09 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 9 Mar 2015, Vijay Mishra wrote: ClamdScan is performing scan but it gives result at last after scan complets.I want that each and every files scan result should be displayed while clamdscan is doing scan.How can i achieve this. Your question can be answered by reading the

Re: [Clamav-devel] New User Question

2015-02-08 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 8 Feb 2015, Vijay Mishra wrote: I am running Clamd on one machine and clamscan on other machine. I want that clamscan should scan the files using clamd(running on other machine) like client server does. You want clamdscan, not clamscan. The man page for clamd.conf tells

Re: [Clamav-devel] ClamAV scanning

2014-11-09 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, Andrew Camilleri wrote: ... I am no expert in this You said it. ... McAffee seems to agree ... And he's in jail for murder. ... I really need to understand how this works in detail Then stop writing and start reading. -- 73, Ged.

Re: [Clamav-devel] clamav-devel Digest, Vol 100, Issue 6

2013-03-23 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 23 Mar 2013, Steven Morgan wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, G.W. Haywood wrote: I want to be able to disable compilation of the bytecode interpreter at configure time. Please try running ./configure with the --disable-llvm option. Thanks for the reply. Does that do what I'm

Re: [Clamav-devel] New Version of ClamAV

2013-03-22 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Matt Olney wrote: ... I wanted to solicit some feedback from our users about what you might be interested in seeing. I want to be able to disable compilation of the bytecode interpreter at configure time. -- 73, Ged.

Re: [Clamav-devel] ClamAV 0.97.7 has been released!

2013-03-16 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 16 Mar 2013, Joel Esler wrote: The latest news at http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/category/security/ is entitled End of Life Announcement: ClamAV 0.94.x and dated October 5th, 2009 Posted by - jesler. Am I looking in the wrong place to find out what these security issues

Re: [Clamav-devel] Plz help me!!

2012-02-12 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, infant deepak wrote: I am doing project on clamAV . I have chosen from http://wiki.clamav.net/bin/view/Main/GoogleSummerOfCode2011 4. DOCX Add support for parsing docx based MS Office files. Main purpose is extracting embedded files. You will need to parse the

Re: [Clamav-devel] The upcoming 15 April kill-switch

2010-04-08 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 T?r?k Edwin wrote: The initial announcement about this was 6 month ago. It seems I missed that one. Can you point me to a link? -- 73, Ged. ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches

Re: [Clamav-devel] Bytecode interpreter

2010-03-12 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 Tomasz Kojm wrote: G.W. Haywood wrote: I'd like to add my voice to those who want an easy way to disable [the bytecode interpreter] - I can see nothing in the clamd.conf man page for 0.96-rc1 which offers any solace. As Edwin already described, you just

Re: [Clamav-devel] Bytecode interpreter

2010-03-11 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 David F. Skoll wrote: I noticed the announcement of the bytecode interpreter in the 0.96-rc1 announcement. ... Why do we need the bytecode interpreter? Can we disable it if we decide the cons outweigh the pros? I was about to write something along these lines

Re: [Clamav-devel] clamav-devel Digest, Vol 53, Issue 6

2009-01-30 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, Renato Botelho wrote: ... clamav-milter doesn't stop with -TERM ... kill -TERM works for me just fine. ... Please be aware that it may take a few seconds for the process to die. I've waited over 40 minutes, sending a -TERM each 2 seconds and it didn't die Perhaps the

Re: [Clamav-devel] Queries on signature database organization/loading

2008-12-30 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 T?r?k Edwin wrote: On 2008-12-29 12:53, Babu.N wrote: 3. When the signature database is updated, Feshclam returns 0. Is there a way to find whether main.cvd is updated or daily.cvd is updated or both ? Yes, you could parse freshclam's logs/stdout, it

[Clamav-devel] Man pages.

2005-05-17 Thread G.W. Haywood
Would it be useful if I trawled through the man pages making a few minor corrections, putting the switches in alphabetical order, and stuff like that? 73, Ged. ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html