Re: [Clamav-users] Tomasz, you're an idiot, and you don't even know it

2008-01-02 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 03.01.2008 um 00:22 schrieb Roflek of TK53: On Jan 2, 2008 11:31 PM, Tomasz Kojm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't negate your points about O_EXCL etc. I don't negate the thesis in the subject either :-) What I really negate is the FUD you're making with your disclosures, some

Re: [Clamav-users] Tomasz, you're an idiot, and you don't even know it

2008-01-02 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 03.01.2008 um 01:20 schrieb Roflek of TK53: On Jan 3, 2008 12:48 AM, Christoph Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's leave the technical part out, since this is not a technical issue as it seems. Tomasz did not deny anything, he just said that this are minor issues. I fully understand

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV Vulnerability

2007-11-21 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 20.11.2007 um 11:06 schrieb Sean Doherty: Anyone know if there is any substance to this vulnerability claim? http://wabisabilabi.blogspot.com/2007/11/focus-on-clamav-remote- code-execution.html No. -- Best regards, Christoph ___ Help us

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing feature defaults, naming, and 0.92

2007-11-21 Thread Christoph Cordes
Hello, so in the end it boils down to this: - after a new release ClamAV should mimic the behavior of the preceding version by default unless it's a major release (.x0) or the user enabled possible new features explicitly. furthermore the default behavior should be as conservative as

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV Vulnerability

2007-11-21 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 22.11.2007 um 00:45 schrieb Steve Wray: Christoph Cordes wrote: Am 20.11.2007 um 11:06 schrieb Sean Doherty: Anyone know if there is any substance to this vulnerability claim? http://wabisabilabi.blogspot.com/2007/11/focus-on-clamav-remote- code-execution.html No. Ok, slight

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV Vulnerability

2007-11-21 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 22.11.2007 um 01:54 schrieb David F. Skoll: Just to make you feel better - ClamAV includes two special mechanisms that in almost all cases allow us to remotely address such vulnerabilities in 5 minutes eliminating the need for urgent update of the entire package. These special

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing feature defaults, naming, and 0.92

2007-11-16 Thread Christoph Cordes
Hello, we thought a bit about this, and here's the solution that could satisfy everyone (TM): for clamd we could provide different configfiles, depending on the needs the user can choose between 3 - or more templates, like: failsafe - most reliable standard - higher chance for a fp but also

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-02 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 02.10.2007 um 19:24 schrieb Dennis Peterson: Can anyone offer a reason why the OP found a virus in the mbox file but not in the split out maildir messages? That kind of inconsistency is unsettling. Just read my reply to one of your mails. -- Best regards, Christoph

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-01 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 02.10.2007 um 00:17 schrieb Dennis Peterson: To be honest this is a pretty weak pattern to create a yea or nea decision with. You're probably right, however, this mails didn't offer too much to pick them up. And please be sure that i checked the signature against 90.000 mailfiles

Re: [Clamav-users] Strange behavior of Clamav with HTML email from Outlook

2007-10-01 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 02.10.2007 um 05:05 schrieb Chinh Nguyen Tam: Dennis Peterson wrote: Chinh Nguyen Tam wrote: Greetings, We've notice some strange behavior of clamav in our email server for. When we try to send some email (HTML format, Outlook 2003) with URL inside, clamav detects these email as

Re: [Clamav-users] Email.Webaccount defined?

2007-08-28 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 29.08.2007 um 00:59 schrieb Dan Metcalf: I have a client that is having some trouble when forwarding some spamcop complaints to the appropriate parties. They keep getting Email.Webaccount-11 rejections. Looked all over, but haven't found the right place for a definition of what

Re: [Clamav-users] What is Email.Faketube?

2007-08-26 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 26.08.2007 um 17:48 schrieb BG Mahesh: But the emails don't have any faketube/youtube URLs They are plain text files but yes, few emails have URLs in their signatures. Are these false phising alarms? Could you submit such a mail in a password protected zipfile? I'll try to figure

Re: [Clamav-users] What is Email.Faketube?

2007-08-26 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 26.08.2007 um 17:53 schrieb BG Mahesh: Should I send it to you directly? Yes, please. -- Best regards, Christoph ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Sourcefire acquires ClamAV

2007-08-17 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 17.08.2007 um 17:28 schrieb John Rudd: It's now just another AV product, instead of a community project. That's kind of sad. Why do you think so? As far as I'm concerned, i will still spend up to 18 hours a day on ClamAV. I'll also continue to call Luca at 4 a.m. if i notice a

Re: [Clamav-users] Sourcefire acquires ClamAV

2007-08-17 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 17.08.2007 um 17:59 schrieb David F. Skoll: (Public companies don't make acquisitions for the good of the community; they make them for the good of their shareholders.) Do you believe that the first goal excepts the other? ClamAV and the Community around it has some experience with doing

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Scanning

2007-08-13 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 13.08.2007 um 18:24 schrieb Roberto Ullfig: What determines a clean/small/fast database? Are these removals logged anywhere? I now notice that all Phishing viruses are gone and we're now getting Email.Ecard viruses. Was there a renaming? The RB signatures are not generic and will usually

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan crashes server

2007-08-10 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 10.08.2007 um 23:16 schrieb Marshall Dudley: I was running clamscan, and the var partition of the drive filled up. This partition had 300 Meg free on it, and clamscan created a huge number of files like mixedtextportion05GJ4k in the /tmp/clamav-ec6d3e4e4e253eaf directory and filled it up.

Re: [Clamav-users] What is infected attachment (Email.Phishing.RB-827)?

2007-07-03 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 03.07.2007 um 07:30 schrieb BG Mahesh: On 6/28/07, Steve Basford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 554 Failure Messagecontains an infected attachment ( Email.Phishing.RB-827) The laptop that is sending the message is not infected with any virus. RB-827 is a phishing signature for regions

Re: [Clamav-users] What is infected attachment (Email.Phishing.RB-827)?

2007-07-03 Thread Christoph Cordes
BG Mahesh schrieb: On 7/3/07, Christoph Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please provide a copy of the mail that clam blocks? The fact that i received your mail is a proof that ClamAV does not detect anything in mails from you. So, the mail that Clam detects on your server contains

Re: [Clamav-users] FP?

2007-07-02 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 02.07.2007 um 10:48 schrieb ClamAV List: Hi List, I had been monitor the mail server and notice that there are many error like the one below. @40004688b95a3983c334 CHKUSER accepted rcpt: from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: remote RND1:unknown: 202.142.86.69 rcpt [EMAIL

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav update question

2007-05-22 Thread Christoph Cordes
Am 22.05.2007 um 16:15 schrieb Morgan Smith: Wilson Kwok wrote: Hello, My Linux mail server still using 0.88 version, the 0.88 version can update 0.9x version virus ? or must need upgrade clamav to 0.9x version ? The virus signatures will work in both versions, but I would

Re: [Clamav-users] new password protected .rar virus

2007-04-25 Thread Christoph Cordes
James Bourne schrieb: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Christoph Cordes wrote: Gary V schrieb: I received an email with a password protected .rar file that claims to contain an .exe file that I should run in ordrer to protect me from an undetected worm. I submitted it and it was recognized

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-0.90.1 issues

2007-04-20 Thread Christoph Cordes
Sai Bathina schrieb: Folks, I have about 16 viruses that are not being caught by the 0.90.1 version as opposed to 0.88.5. I think the problem looks to be in the cli_ac_scanbuff function. Could you send the samples to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Please use a password protected zip archive. Thank

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-0.90.1 issues

2007-04-20 Thread Christoph Cordes
Sai Bathina schrieb: So the output for 0.88.5 looks like this: Scanning through Win32.Alcaul.i Found virus: W32.Kruls.Gen Scanning through Win32.Alcaul.j Found virus: W32.Kruls.Gen Scanning through Win32.Bolzano.3100 Found virus: W32.Bolzano.Gen Scanning through Win32.Bolzano.3148

Re: [Clamav-users] Differences between v0.88.7 and v0.90.2

2007-04-19 Thread Christoph Cordes
Joe Evans schrieb: After upgrading to the latest version of ClamAV, I've noticed some files not being detected with v0.90.2, which were detected with v0.88.7. Could there be a bug with the pattern scanning portion of libclamav, or am I missing something obvious? Both test cases are using

Re: [Clamav-users] Differences between v0.88.7 and v0.90.2

2007-04-19 Thread Christoph Cordes
Joe Evans schrieb: Can anyone shed some light on the log entries below? (1) Can't calculate offset for signature Trojan.Mybot-5073 (2) Broken PE file The file is broken. This happens very often with such samples (SdBot/Mybot). With ClamAV .9x the recognition of broken executables was

Re: [Clamav-users] Problems with Powerpoint Files

2007-04-02 Thread Christoph Cordes
Sebastian Deiszner wrote: Hello, i got 2 or 3 powerpoint-files every week. I have the problem, that the files are 'corrupted' - powerpoint is not able to open the documents. I use postfix, clamassassin and the newest clamav. The sender from the powerpoint files send the same file to

Re: [Clamav-users] Does clamav have any certificate?

2007-03-27 Thread Christoph Cordes
Larry Yuma wrote: Does clamav have any certificate of any labs like www.icsalabs.com? No, nothing like that. -- Best regards, Christophmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit

Re: [Clamav-users] How do I report a false positive 2Mbytes?

2006-12-12 Thread Christoph Cordes
Mogens Kjaer wrote: I've tried to report this on http://cgi.clamav.net/sendvirus.cgi, however, only files 2M are accepted. Just submit the URL. I downloaded it and we will take care of it. Thank you. -- Best regards, Christophmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Clamav-users] This seems particularly nasty

2006-10-21 Thread Christoph Cordes
Dennis Peterson wrote: I already know the question is difficult, but it isn't impossible to answer as there are other AV vendors who have a solution for this particular problem if the article is to be believed. So you want to know if the ClamAV Team monitors an infected system to get hands

Re: [Clamav-users] custom virus file

2006-10-04 Thread Christoph Cordes
Carl Thompson wrote: I have followed the documentation i've found and created custom database files that identify files that stand alone without a problem using sigtool --md5 file /path/to/custom.db Try: sigtool --md5 file /path/to/custom.hdb -- Best regards, Christoph

Re: [Clamav-users] update version

2006-10-04 Thread Christoph Cordes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola Amigos: necesito actualizar la version de clamav de 0.83 a 0.88. Ya baje los archivos .gz y la pregunta es, que teng que hacer para actualizar?? debo hacer backup de los archivos de configuracion y que mas? que otra medida tengo que tener en cuenta?

Re: [Clamav-users] Fwd: New phishing detection algorithm in cvs version of clamav

2006-09-17 Thread Christoph Cordes
Dennis Peterson wrote: How is this different/better than or preferable to systems already using SURBL technology? SURBL is a blacklist and can only block abusive IP's/domains/URL's that have been reported and added. ClamAV´s Phishphighter is able to recognize phish even if the abusive

Re: [Clamav-users] FYI: scanner test

2006-05-12 Thread Christoph Cordes
Hello Didi, Friday, May 12, 2006, 3:44:19 PM, you wrote: Maybe it is of interest: http://nepenthes.mwcollect.org/stats:scannertest Not really. You have to take the results with a grain of salt for several reasons: The test is 6 months old (even if heise.de still sells it as News) Many

Re: [Clamav-users] FYI: scanner test

2006-05-12 Thread Christoph Cordes
Hello Nepenthes, Friday, May 12, 2006, 4:34:58 PM, you wrote: We still *have* that good intention, and these stats were written as some advertising for nepenthes, not as a 100% reliable source for comparisions between different scanners. You and I are aware of this - but as you can see @

Re: [Clamav-users] Error running Clamd

2006-04-18 Thread Christoph Cordes
Hello Ollie, Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 4:01:40 PM, you wrote: Hi I am getting the below error when trying to run Clamd. The .conf files are where they are supposed to be. Does anyone know what could be causing this? $ clamd ERROR: Please edit the example config file /usr/local/etc/clamd.

Re: [Clamav-users] pandasoftware distributing Sirius.Annihilator.272?

2005-09-10 Thread Christoph Cordes
BitFuzzy wrote: Odhiambo Washington wrote: * On 10/09/05 13:47 -0500, Pablo Chamorro C. wrote: I managed to deploy squid + havp + clamav for antivirus control of web pages/files, and for my surprise this morning I found: 10/09/2005 13:08:36

Re: [Clamav-users] How are downloader viruses encountered ??

2005-04-28 Thread Christoph Cordes
Joanna Roman wrote: Can anybody tell me how downloader viruses are encountered ? Is it via http browsing and adware ?? Not only - sometimes they are spammed through mail or distributed through P2P networks - you can find them almost everywhere in many different flavours. -- Best regards,

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus not recognized

2005-04-21 Thread Christoph Cordes
Battaglia Andrea wrote: Hi, I am trying to replace WebShield Antivirus with ClamAV, but there are some virus that clam is not able to capture. These virus in WebShield are called : NEWUNIX and Bagle!elm.gen. Could you give me some information about these virus ? NEWUNIX sounds like a generic /

Re: [Clamav-users] Submitting a virus file

2005-04-19 Thread Christoph Cordes
Niek wrote: On 4/19/2005 8:25 PM +0200, Tomasz Kojm wrote: Does it send itself via e-mail? No they didn't send themselves per e-mail. So what you're saying is, only selfspreading e-mail viruses qualify to make it through the submit process ? No, but Email borne malware has the highest priority.I

Re: [Clamav-users] W32.Spybot.IVQ?

2005-01-30 Thread Christoph Cordes
Gary Weinfurther wrote: Sounds like the answer is no? Christoph Cordes wrote: Gary Weinfurther wrote: Does ClamAv protect against W32.Spybot.IVQ, a worm with Denial of Service and Back Door capabilities? This is not easy to answer - this Spybots/Mybots/Gaobots/Wootbots/SdBots come in many

Re: [Clamav-users] W32.Spybot.IVQ?

2005-01-29 Thread Christoph Cordes
Gary Weinfurther wrote: Does ClamAv protect against W32.Spybot.IVQ, a worm with Denial of Service and Back Door capabilities? This is not easy to answer - this Spybots/Mybots/Gaobots/Wootbots/SdBots come in many different flavours, packed and crypted with one or more runtimepackers. ClamAV is

Re: [Clamav-users] Worm.Somefool.Gen-3 description

2004-10-15 Thread Christoph Cordes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Does anyone know a good description of the behavior of Worm.Somefool.Gen-3 ? How do others AV call this worm? thanks --eduardoh This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re[2]: [Clamav-users] Adding Virus type to the X-Virus-Flag: Yes

2004-10-12 Thread Christoph Cordes
On Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 5:02:41 PM, marvin wrote: m Nigel Horne writes: On Tuesday 12 Oct 2004 15:51, marvin wrote: Although it logs the virus to the /var/log/clamd.log, I would like it added to the header e.g. X-Virus-Flag: Yes - Worm.SomeFool.P Any ideas how I can

Re: [Clamav-users] Submit Virus

2004-10-11 Thread Christoph Cordes
On Monday, October 11, 2004, 7:32:53 PM, Jason Warren wrote: JW Had something that looks like a virus get through ClamAV today. I JW understand this is bound to happen. Not bitching about that. Question JW is where do i send this guy. http://clamav.catt.com/cgi-bin/sendvirus.cgi -- Best

Re: [Clamav-users] New virus/worm ???

2004-08-09 Thread Christoph Cordes
On Monday, August 9, 2004, 7:58:52 PM, Michael Brennen wrote: MB Just in the last few minutes I've started getting hit with several MB copies of a a zip packaged exe file from widely varying sources. The MB names are of the form 'price.*\.zip'. I've submitted a copy online MB and it was

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV Virus DB updates list not up to date

2004-06-14 Thread Christoph Cordes
On Monday, June 14, 2004, 3:09:13 PM, Randal, Phil wrote: RP Last update details on clamav-virusdb is 349 (June 10th), current version is RP 354. RP Are the individual update summaries available elsewhere? RP Phil RP RP Phil Randal RP Network Engineer RP Herefordshire Council RP Hereford,

Re: [Clamav-users] Still trying to get clamdscan working.

2004-05-18 Thread Christoph Cordes
On Tuesday, May 18, 2004, 9:48:01 PM, Harrell, Roger wrote: HR I've been trying to get clamdscan working for quite some time now. I have HR installed clamav. clamscan works. Clamdscan fails with: HR connect(): Connection refused HR ERROR: Can't connect to clamd. HR --- SCAN SUMMARY

Re: [Clamav-users] The Sasser worm

2004-05-14 Thread Christoph Cordes
On Saturday, May 15, 2004, 12:49:03 AM, Michael St. Laurent wrote: MSL I know that Clamav has signatures in the database for the various species of MSL the Sasser worm and when I check the sigtool database they are listed. MSL What's the problem then you ask? There is not a single instance in

Re[2]: [Clamav-users] Clam assigns wrong virus name??

2004-04-28 Thread Christoph Cordes
On Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 4:09:57 PM, Ralf Guenthner wrote: I guess that you use very old database - Win32.Mix isn't present in the database since the end of February 2004. RG Tomasz, RG thanks a lot for replying. I'm afraid that's not the problem, though. RG Here's the result of a

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Worm.SomeFool is this w32/Netsky.b@MM

2004-02-22 Thread Christoph Cordes
On Sunday, February 22, 2004, 8:19:13 PM, Rajkumar S wrote: RS Starbane wrote: Considering the speed at which this was added to the database (and the last three major mail worms that got treated similarly) I'm just terribly impressed with the ClamAV devs. RS I run ClamAV for our local ISP,

Re: [Clamav-users] missing known virus

2004-02-08 Thread Christoph Cordes
Hello Carl, Sunday, February 8, 2004, 3:05:56 PM, you wrote: C I have clamav .65 with milter .60 installed in a sendmail C system. clamav-milter seems to catch all the files except those in C .zip files. C I recieved mydoom in .zip files and it was scanned and tagged C as clean by

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamscan; clamdscan

2004-01-30 Thread Christoph Cordes
Hello Micha, Thursday, January 29, 2004, 10:13:41 AM, you wrote: MS Last night I made a small change to qmail-scanner.pl- I added 'worm.sco.a' MS to the array $silent_viruses_array. (To prevent sending Virus Found messages MS to innocent sender addresses) did you edit it with something like

Re: [Clamav-users] Some basics doubts :)

2004-01-06 Thread Christoph Cordes
Hello Dilip, Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 3:44:43 PM, you wrote: DM Hi, DM I just got Clam-AV and Freshclam working :) Was little tough :( DM I'm running Qmail on Redhat7.3 DM # more /var/log/clam-update.log DM DM

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter: is it possble to mark infected e-mail, but still deliver it to addressee ?

2003-11-28 Thread Christoph Cordes
Hello Brian, Friday, November 28, 2003, 6:34:40 AM, you wrote: BWA We do run ClamAV at the ISP level and we've had one user ask that we BWA not filter their email. My response was to laugh, my boss offered to BWA mail the user one of the AOL CD's we've got laying around and to cancel BWA

Re: [Clamav-users] Win32.HLLM.Foo

2003-11-12 Thread Christoph Cordes
Hello Serge, Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 9:53:28 AM, you wrote: SS Hello, clamav users. SS Can clamav detect Win32.HLLM.Foo virus? Currently, i must detect this virus by DrWeb. SS WBR, ssp Since Win32.HLLM.Foo seems to be another name for Mimail - yes it

[Clamav-users] Just an idea - Database dividing

2003-11-12 Thread Christoph Cordes
Hello Clamav-users, I don´t know if anyone already came up with this or if it´s already on some ToDo i didn´t read - if so: please have mercy :-) while i was playing arround with KAV i noticed that they offer 3 different signature sets (normal, advanced, paranoid). I think that´s a pretty

Re: [Clamav-users] Does clamav detect the W32.Swen* worms?

2003-11-10 Thread Christoph Cordes
Hello Robin, Monday, November 10, 2003, 8:52:50 PM, you wrote: RC Does clamav detect the W32.Swen worms? RC W32.Swen.A yes, but it will be detected as Worm.Gibe.F -- Best regards, Christophmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]