[Clamav-users] a beginner's question

2004-10-05 Thread gillian
OK, before you all shudder I appologise if this is blatently obvious and staring me in the face. I have read the doco and searched google but I still am not able to understand some fundamental things about clamav. 1. clamav daemon runs - what does it actually do? 2. clamscan actually scans

[Clamav-users] COPYING FOUND

2004-10-05 Thread Steffen Breitbach
Hi there! One of our scanners printed this in its logfile: /usr/share/doc/automake-stable-1.4p6/COPYING: COPYING FOUND /usr/share/doc/common-licenses/GPL-2: COPYING FOUND /usr/share/doc/common-licenses/GPL-2.0: COPYING FOUND Why does clamav report those? Mit freundlichen Grüssen Steffen Breitbach

Re: [Clamav-users] COPYING FOUND

2004-10-05 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 at 9:23:31 +0200, Steffen Breitbach wrote: Hi there! One of our scanners printed this in its logfile: /usr/share/doc/automake-stable-1.4p6/COPYING: COPYING FOUND /usr/share/doc/common-licenses/GPL-2: COPYING FOUND /usr/share/doc/common-licenses/GPL-2.0: COPYING FOUND

Re: [Clamav-users] a beginner's question

2004-10-05 Thread Matt
gillian wrote: OK, before you all shudder I appologise if this is blatently obvious and staring me in the face. I have read the doco and searched google but I still am not able to understand some fundamental things about clamav. 1. clamav daemon runs - what does it actually do? 2.

Re: [Clamav-users] a beginner's question

2004-10-05 Thread Maurizio Marini
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:23, gillian wrote: this, but none of the doc mentions having to do this. So what am I missing here? http://www.amavis.org Maurizio ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

Re: [Clamav-users] a beginner's question

2004-10-05 Thread Maurizio Marini
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:23, gillian wrote: better, http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ M. ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

[Clamav-users] Newbie question

2004-10-05 Thread Sasa Stupar
Hi! I have installed Clamav 0.75-1 with enabled milter for sendmail on my RH8 box. I have read the install paper which comes with clamav source but I don't know how to start clamd before sendmail and also do I have to start it or do I need to start only clamav-milter as daemon. I allready have

Re: [Clamav-users] Newbie question

2004-10-05 Thread Timo Schöler
I have installed Clamav 0.75-1 with enabled milter for sendmail on my RH8 box. I have read the install paper which comes with clamav source but I don't know how to start clamd before sendmail and also do I have to start it or do I need to start only clamav-milter as daemon. I allready have

Re: [Clamav-users] a beginner's question

2004-10-05 Thread gillian
Thank you so much for your response, but boy, now I am confused. Are you saying I should be using amavis not clamav? This is the 2nd response with an amavis url in it. On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 19:40, Maurizio Marini wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:23, gillian wrote: better,

Re: [Clamav-users] a beginner's question

2004-10-05 Thread Timo Schöler
Thank you so much for your response, but boy, now I am confused. Are you saying I should be using amavis not clamav? This is the 2nd response with an amavis url in it. amavis/amavisd-new is used as kind of 'glue' between your MTA and clamav (e.g.).

Re: [Clamav-users] a beginner's question

2004-10-05 Thread Nigel Horne
On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 11:08, gillian wrote: Thank you so much for your response, but boy, now I am confused. Are you saying I should be using amavis not clamav? This is the 2nd response with an amavis url in it. If you're using sendmail there is no need for any other software. -Nigel --

Re: [Clamav-users] a beginner's question

2004-10-05 Thread Terry Allen
Thank you so much for your response, but boy, now I am confused. Are you saying I should be using amavis not clamav? This is the 2nd response with an amavis url in it. Hi again, Gillian, the 2 pieces of software complement each other - Amavis-new is a 'conduit' which passes stuff out to

Re: [Clamav-users] a beginner's question

2004-10-05 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 5, 2004, at 6:08 AM, gillian wrote: Thank you so much for your response, but boy, now I am confused. Are you saying I should be using amavis not clamav? This is the 2nd response with an amavis url in it. Amavis is a program that can work in conjunction with ClamAV. Most UNIX systems work

Re: [Clamav-users] a beginner's question

2004-10-05 Thread Matt
gillian wrote: Thank you so much for your response, but boy, now I am confused. Are you saying I should be using amavis not clamav? This is the 2nd response with an amavis url in it. Which method of virus scanning are you wishing to achieve? 1) Scanning emails coming through your MTA. 2)

[Clamav-users] Log File 0 Bytes

2004-10-05 Thread clamav
Hi All; I've followed qmailrocks.org's site to a t and got clamav working properly, however, the clamav.log file does not update. It's still at 0 bytes and at the original date when I touched the file. The permissions seem right, and the configuration in freshclam.conf seems okay. Anyone have

Re: [Clamav-users] Log File 0 Bytes

2004-10-05 Thread clamav
Hi All; I've followed qmailrocks.org's site to a t and got clamav working properly, however, the clamav.log file does not update. It's still at 0 bytes and at the original date when I touched the file. The permissions seem right, and the configuration in freshclam.conf seems okay.

RE: [Clamav-users] Log File 0 Bytes

2004-10-05 Thread Steve Dimoff
Do you have a conf in /usr/local/etc also? If so, does it match what you have in /etc/clamav.conf ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 8:18 AM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: [Clamav-users] Log File 0 Bytes Hi All; I've

Re: [Clamav-users] Newbie question

2004-10-05 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Sasa Stupar wrote: I don't know how to start clamd before sendmail and also do I have to start it or do I need to start only clamav-milter as daemon. It's been a l-o-n-g time since I messed with Linux, and I know nothing about SYSV-style startups. I have always used rc.local for packages that I

[Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Brent Clark
Hi all I just run a few mail test from www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest and my clam antivirus failed miserably. I too ran the tests from testvirus.org, this second test was ok, only two got through. Could someone please share some help with this, Kind Regards Brent Clark

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Nigel Horne
On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 14:11, Brent Clark wrote: Hi all I too ran the tests from testvirus.org, this second test was ok, only two got through. Two will get through (24 and 25), but since they don't contain any virus there's nothing to find and therefore nothing to stop. Brent Clark -Nigel

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Nigel Horne
On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 14:11, Brent Clark wrote: Hi all I just run a few mail test from www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest and my clam antivirus failed miserably. You haven't said what version of clamAV you're using, so I can't advise you. Brent Clark -Nigel -- Nigel Horne. Arranger,

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Salvatore Basso
Hi, I use 0.75.1 .. test with testvirus.org are full ok but with gfi.com/emailsecuritytest are failed eicar.com and hide.hta in fact the attached pass through mail server and it arrive on mail client, but the file but gfi-test.txt not is created on pc. -- Salvatore.

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Nigel Horne
On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 14:11, Brent Clark wrote: Hi all I just run a few mail test from www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest and my clam antivirus failed miserably. What do you mean by failed miserably. I can only assume you mean that 100% of the emails got through. I've just tried this test. Some

RE: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Brent Clark
Hi mail:~# clamscan -V clamscan / ClamAV version 0.75-1 mail:~# Im using this with my Exim Mail server Thanks for your help ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

[Clamav-users] Clamdscan problems using %f

2004-10-05 Thread outerheaven.liste
Hi, I've setted up the clamd this is the clamav.conf file: #Automatically Generated by clamav-daemon postinst #To reconfigure clamd run #dpkg-reconfigure clamav-daemon LocalSocket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl FixStaleSocket User root AllowSupplementaryGroups ScanMail ScanArchive ArchiveMaxRecursion 5

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Matt
Brent Clark wrote: Hi mail:~# clamscan -V clamscan / ClamAV version 0.75-1 mail:~# Im using this with my Exim Mail server Remember that a lot of the GFI tests are for Outlook vulnerablities, no malicious code per se. How many did you trap? Matt

RE: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Brent Clark
Remember that a lot of the GFI tests are for Outlook vulnerablities, no malicious code per se. How many did you trap? Only 6 Which I suppose aint to bad, but still. But your right, because 5 were (more an Exim issue):

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz
Brent Clark wrote: Hi all I just run a few mail test from www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest and my clam antivirus failed miserably. I too ran the tests from testvirus.org, this second test was ok, only two got through. Could someone please share some help with this, Both gfi and antivirus.org have

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Shane Wise
I just ran it against mine (.80rc3) and it worked pretty good...I did have the 2 come through...however I had 5 of them that I was getting the stream: Bad format or broken data ERROR message on them and my server was rejecting with a Milter: data, reject=451 4.3.2 Please try again later...

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Matt
Shane Wise wrote: I just ran it against mine (.80rc3) and it worked pretty good...I did have the 2 come through...however I had 5 of them that I was getting the stream: Bad format or broken data ERROR message on them and my server was rejecting with a Milter: data, reject=451 4.3.2 Please

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Matt
Brent Clark wrote: Only 6 Which I suppose aint to bad, but still. But your right, because 5 were (more an Exim issue): There are five that I know of which should definitely be picked up by virus scanning, so that's about right. The rest are down to scanning, by some other means, for

[Clamav-users] [OT] mailing list server

2004-10-05 Thread Matt
Just like to say, by the way, the new ML server is great. It's lovely to see the mails within a short while of posting :) Thanks chaps. Matt ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

[Clamav-users] upgrade from .65 to .80rc3-maxes out processor/never stops scanning!

2004-10-05 Thread John H.
I upgraded from .65 to .80rc3 on fedora core 2 machine(rpm from site), and I was told by a user of a system I admin this morning, hours and hours later, that clamav was using 100% cpu/ram. I did ps auxw |grep clamav and saw the following ps aux |grep clam root 5616 0.0 0.1 3808 552 ?

[Clamav-users] Can I add message to end of email

2004-10-05 Thread Richard Owen
Title: Can I add message to end of email Hi Just finishing install on a Raq4 and would like to add a message At the end of each mail checked to say it was scanned ok Is this possible if so please can you let me know how Thanks Richard

Re: [Clamav-users] Can I add message to end of email

2004-10-05 Thread Matt
Richard Owen wrote: Hi Just finishing install on a Raq4 and would like to add a message At the end of each mail checked to say it was scanned ok Is this possible if so please can you let me know how What software are you using to scan the email? Matt

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Nigel Horne
On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 16:27, Shane Wise wrote: May have been...looked like it was like eicar 1/5 through 5/5 I am uploading *TEST* code to handle this to CVS as we speak. -Nigel -- Nigel Horne. Arranger, Composer, Typesetter. NJH Music, Barnsley, UK. ICQ#20252325 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Clamav-users] Can I add message to end of email

2004-10-05 Thread Nigel Horne
On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 16:36, Richard Owen wrote: Just finishing install on a Raq4 and would like to add a message At the end of each mail checked to say it was scanned ok With the --sign and/or --sigature-file option of clamav-milter Richard -Nigel -- Nigel Horne. Arranger, Composer,

Re: [Clamav-users] upgrade from .65 to .80rc3-maxes out processor/never stops scanning!

2004-10-05 Thread Kritof Petr
John H. wrote: I upgraded from .65 to .80rc3 on fedora core 2 machine(rpm from site), and I was told by a user of a system I admin this morning, hours and hours later, that clamav was using 100% cpu/ram. I did ps auxw |grep clamav and saw the following ps aux |grep clam root 5616 0.0 0.1

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2004-10-05 Thread Nigel Horne
I wrote: I am uploading *TEST* code to handle this to CVS as we speak. Yes, before anyone says it, I know I've been maintaining for sometime that (a) it's not possible and (b) it's not the job of clamAV anyway. But I had a brainwave on how to do it... It is EXPERIMENTAL code, not compiled by

RE: [Clamav-users] Log File 0 Bytes

2004-10-05 Thread Cory Megitt
No, I do not. I used the RPM from qmailrocks.org. Do you have a conf in /usr/local/etc also? If so, does it match what you have in /etc/clamav.conf ? ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

Re: [Clamav-users] Can I add message to end of email

2004-10-05 Thread Hugues Lepesant
Hello, man clamav-milter [...] --sign, -S Add a hard-coded signature to each scanned file. --signature-file, -F Location of file to be appended to each scanned message. Overrides -S. [...] Best regards hug On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Richard Owen wrote: Hi Just finishing install on a

[Clamav-users] freshclam

2004-10-05 Thread Marcus Habermehl
Hi. I have installed clamav 0.80rc3 on my system (Slackware 10.0). Now I want to update my virus database. But after starting freshclam I become this error message. ClamAV update process started at Mon Oct 4 19:11:23 2004 ERROR: Can't get information about db.de.clamav.net host. ERROR:

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam

2004-10-05 Thread Brian Morrison
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:27:13 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Habermehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ClamAV update process started at Mon Oct 4 19:11:23 2004 ERROR: Can't get information about db.de.clamav.net host. ERROR: Connection with ??? failed. What happens if you try: dig

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam

2004-10-05 Thread Marcus Habermehl
Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2004, 17:32 +0100 schrieb Brian Morrison: On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:27:13 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Habermehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ClamAV update process started at Mon Oct 4 19:11:23 2004 ERROR: Can't get information about db.de.clamav.net host. ERROR:

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam

2004-10-05 Thread Brian Morrison
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:41:53 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Habermehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2004, 17:32 +0100 schrieb Brian Morrison: On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:27:13 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Habermehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ClamAV update process

Re: [Clamav-users] upgrade from .65 to .80rc3-maxes out processor/never stops scanning!

2004-10-05 Thread John H.
my system is not messed up, and I did not install a 3rd party package. I clearly explained the contents of clamnightly, which simply runs clamscan and freshclam every night cat /etc/cron.daily/clamnightly /usr/bin/freshclam --quiet -l /var/log/clam-update.log /usr/bin/clamscan -r -i -l

Re: [Clamav-users] GMP-Devel - Where?

2004-10-05 Thread Scott Rothgaber
I've built about half a dozen versions and ports of libgmp and 'configure' is *still* bitching. I even found a port called 'libgmp-freebsd'... GNU MP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic... [SNIP] Note: This package contains version the the library just before it was removed from

Re: [Clamav-users] GMP-Devel - Where?

2004-10-05 Thread Matt
Scott Rothgaber wrote: I've built about half a dozen versions and ports of libgmp and 'configure' is *still* bitching. I even found a port called 'libgmp-freebsd'... GNU MP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic... [SNIP] Note: This package contains version the the library

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam

2004-10-05 Thread Marcus Habermehl
Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2004, 17:45 +0100 schrieb Brian Morrison: On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:41:53 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Habermehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2004, 17:32 +0100 schrieb Brian Morrison: On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:27:13 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Clamav-users] Log File 0 Bytes

2004-10-05 Thread Dennis Skinner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi All; | | I've followed qmailrocks.org's site to a t and got clamav working | properly, however, the clamav.log file does not update. | | It's still at 0 bytes and at the original date when I touched the file. | | The

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam

2004-10-05 Thread Brian Morrison
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:00:43 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Habermehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I execute freshclam like this su -c freshclam root password Perhaps is this wrong? Not sure, but it might be. I run freshclam as a daemon from an /etc/rc.d/init script, so it is running

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam

2004-10-05 Thread Matt
Brian Morrison wrote: On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:00:43 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Habermehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I execute freshclam like this su -c freshclam root password Perhaps is this wrong? Not sure, but it might be. I run freshclam as a daemon from an

Re: [Clamav-users] Newbie question

2004-10-05 Thread Sasa Stupar
Thank you for the answer. This is the way that I am starting it now but in the docs it is specified to start milter and clamd before sendmail and rc.local is started at the end. Anyone with the knowledge of sysv style startup (redhat)? Reagrds, Sasa At 09:02 5.10.2004 -0400, you wrote: Sasa

[Clamav-users] Detection problem?

2004-10-05 Thread Sasa Stupar
I am running a clamav-milter with sendmail 8.13.0. I have made a test at www.testvirus.org and two tests passed thru: #24 and #25. In explanation it says that it should detect it but it doesn't. Any comment on that? Regards, Sasa Stupar ___

Re: [Clamav-users] Detection problem?

2004-10-05 Thread Sasa Stupar
Just forgot to mention that I am running Clamav 0.75.1. At 20:34 5.10.2004 +0200, you wrote: I am running a clamav-milter with sendmail 8.13.0. I have made a test at www.testvirus.org and two tests passed thru: #24 and #25. In explanation it says that it should detect it but it doesn't. Any

RE: [Clamav-users] Detection problem?

2004-10-05 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Sasa Stupar wrote: Just forgot to mention that I am running Clamav 0.75.1. At 20:34 5.10.2004 +0200, you wrote: I am running a clamav-milter with sendmail 8.13.0. I have made a test at www.testvirus.org and two tests passed thru: #24 and #25. In explanation it says that it should detect it

Re: [Clamav-users] Detection problem?

2004-10-05 Thread Nigel Horne
On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 19:34, Sasa Stupar wrote: I am running a clamav-milter with sendmail 8.13.0. I have made a test at www.testvirus.org and two tests passed thru: #24 and #25. There is no signature to detect, so nothing to stop. In explanation it says that it should detect it but it

RE: [Clamav-users] Detection problem?

2004-10-05 Thread Rick Cooper
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nigel Horne Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 2:02 PM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Detection problem? On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 19:34, Sasa Stupar wrote: I am running a clamav-milter

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam

2004-10-05 Thread Marcus Habermehl
Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2004, 19:09 +0100 schrieb Matt: Brian Morrison wrote: On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:00:43 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Habermehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I execute freshclam like this su -c freshclam root password Perhaps is this wrong?

[Clamav-users] Re: Upgrade to 0.80rc3 breaks Exim malware acl

2004-10-05 Thread Paul Geldart
After closer inspection of the logs I found the entry Mon Oct 4 01:06:39 2004 - Client disconnected and have tracked the problem back to clamd/others.c. If I replace others.c with the version from rc2 the problem disappears. diff of the 2 files is: 141d140 #undef HAVE_POLL /* temporarily

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter + sendmail won't talk to each other

2004-10-05 Thread Simon Christian
Hello again, I am still getting the below message after starting clamd clamav-milter and sendmail in that order. clamd and clamav-milter start without any errors being reported in either clamd.log or /var/log/messages. When I start sendmail, which starts without error itself I get the error

RE: [Clamav-users] Detection problem?

2004-10-05 Thread Sasa Stupar
At 14:17 5.10.2004 -0500, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nigel Horne Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 2:02 PM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Detection problem? On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 19:34, Sasa Stupar