Re: [clamav-users] Using clamscan with multiple cores

2015-06-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
And be careful if using the -l option of clamscan. On 6/22/15 1:13 PM, Noel Jones wrote: On 6/22/2015 2:50 PM, MarkusGMX wrote: Am 20/06/15 um 19:15 schrieb Markus Egg: Hello, how can I use clamscan on multicore CPUs ? I found clamdscan with --multiscan but for some reasons --multiscan does

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV(R) blog: ClamAV 0.99b Meets YARA!

2015-06-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
. Referencing other rules within a condition is one of the yara features that is not supported in ClamAV 0.99 beta1. We are looking at how to include it in a future release. On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Dennis Peterson denni...@inetnw.com wrote: That is a pretty nice addition, Joel. Naturally somebody

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.99b Meets YARA!

2015-06-10 Thread Dennis Peterson
That is a pretty nice addition, Joel. Naturally somebody is going to ask if there is an on-line rule testing utility anywhere so that might as well be me :). I'm particularly interested in knowing if the linefeeds between the keyword rule and the closing brace in the rules can be left out so

Re: [clamav-users] malware Html.Exploit.CVE_2015_0045

2015-05-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/29/15 4:20 AM, Paul Martin wrote: Hello, I have many false positive when clamav detects malware Html.Exploit.CVE_2015_0045, what can I do to stop these false positive ? Thanks, Paul ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide:

Re: [clamav-users] [Fwd: [sanesecurity] extremeshok/clamav-unofficial-sigs :: version 4.3 (updated 2015-05-13)]

2015-05-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
Nice work, Steve and Adrian. dp On 5/14/15 6:13 AM, Steve Basford wrote: Hi All, Just in case this is useful to anyone: Adrian of extremeshok-dot-com has forked Bill Landry's clamav-unofficial-sigs script and made quite a few new changes to the script: Original

Re: [clamav-users] Do you trust the Heuristic Analysis of clamav?

2015-04-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
My opinion is well-framed by this wikitedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_analysis To summarize, no, I don't trust best-guesses. Not even mine. dp On 4/12/15 4:52 AM, Franklin Wang wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi guys, I've been collecting reviews

Re: [clamav-users] How to manually delete infected file

2015-04-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/9/15 7:31 AM, sanes wrote: Does clamscan --remove=yes only delete infected file from hard disk, or also if running in memory (RAM)? we rather manually delete files that are infected, but not sure how to handle Having clamscan remove files before you review them is probably the worst

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/29/15 4:55 AM, TR Shaw wrote: On Mar 29, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Dennis Peterson denni...@inetnw.com wrote: On 3/28/15 10:43 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for that. I guess ‘Hash Value’ refers to the ClamAV identifying the .dmg as a known file that contains virus/es. Jinwon

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/29/15 12:08 AM, Al Varnell wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 09:50 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: It should be possible to use cpio to extract the contents to a stream and feed that into the ClamAV engine OS X does include cpio but I have been unsuccessful in getting it to do anything

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/28/15 6:48 PM, Al Varnell wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 06:35 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for the responses. I am not a computer expert so I might not fully understand all that has been discussed but it sounds like ClamXav extracts(decompose?) archive files like zip, RAR and then scan.

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/28/15 10:43 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for that. I guess ‘Hash Value’ refers to the ClamAV identifying the .dmg as a known file that contains virus/es. Jinwon That was the case too for password protected zip files. If you can't burst the contents you condemn the wrapper. dp

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
Forgot to include dmg files are as described when mounted - else they are disk images (cpio). I don't know what the clam product does with unmounted disk images. dp On 3/26/15 11:09 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: The dmg files are logical structures. They are comprised of Unix directories

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
The dmg files are logical structures. They are comprised of Unix directories and files and clam doesn't need to treat them differently than any other directory tree. if you have support compiled in for zip, RAR, TAR, and several other archiving formats it should decompose them and scan each of

Re: [clamav-users] basic malware missed???

2015-03-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
The string you are looking for is not necessarily the only one you should be looking for for that exploit. More information here: http://somewebgeek.com/2014/wordpress-remote-code-execution-base64_decode/ Steve at SaneSecurity has a nice document on creating your own signatures here:

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam failing

2015-03-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
65.19.179.67 http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20150212.145031.f8669263.en.html -Al- On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 05:24 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: Mirror #12 IP: 65.19.179.67 Successes: 0 Failures: 23 Last access: Mon Feb 9 03:45:32 2015 Ignore: No -Al- ___ Help

Re: [clamav-users] Why is ArchiveBlockMax obsoleted?

2015-02-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
Features that have graduated from deprecated to deleted should have all remnants removed from associated files. Sounds like it's past time to tidy up the clamd.conf and freshclam.conf files. dp On 2/26/15 10:10 AM, Steven Morgan wrote: Hi Vladislav, Unfortunately there is currently not an

Re: [clamav-users] daily.cvd out of date?

2015-02-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
Maybe it's time to run that nmap script they might have :) Hopefully they have something more elegant, though. dp On 2/26/15 11:49 AM, Smith, David wrote: Nope .. not yet! :) [root@SERVERNAME]# wget http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd --2015-02-26 14:46:30--

Re: [clamav-users] clamav-milter LocalNet option / outgoing mail (Debian Wheezy)

2015-02-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/22/15 12:32 PM, Daniel Spies wrote: On 02/22/2015 09:18 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: While I disagree with everything you've said I am glad you've spoken out. My job would be far easier if everyone did so. Could you be more precise? The quintessence of my last message was: 1. A company

Re: [clamav-users] [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: Calamav cannot scan tar file and gzip files?

2015-02-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/17/15 3:58:02PM, Manoj Ramakrishnan wrote: At the moment there is no settings in squidclamav to extract the multipart form data and send only the attachment to clamd. As Kevin mentioned, if clamd doesn't natively support parsing HTTP messages then we need to find a way to pass correct

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV(R) blog: ClamAV 0.98.6 has been released!

2015-02-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
It takes a lot of cores to run multiple VM's and scanning other VM's from a peer VM across the virtual switch and creates a lot of traffic in the vSwitch layer of the hosting system. It doesn't work to scan the vdisk of a VM itself unless you can mount the virtual disk and scan it as you would

[clamav-users] ExtraDatabase question

2015-01-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
Is this a deprecated feature we can/should ignore? dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml

Re: [clamav-users] ExtraDatabase question

2015-01-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
AM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: The feature still exists. However, I don’t believe we distribute any “ExtraDatabase”s on the mirrors. On Jan 29, 2015, at 7:05 AM, Dennis Peterson denni...@inetnw.com wrote: Is this a deprecated feature we can/should ignore? dp

Re: [clamav-users] Need help to use a local server for updating

2015-01-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 1/27/15 2:32 AM, stef stef wrote: Thanks for this. So, now I write on my freshclam.conf :PrivateMirror 192.168.0.200 And no more Error can't find Name or service not known But, my client don't find .cvd :WARNING: main.cld not found on remote server Now, how indicate to the client that it

Re: [clamav-users] I have some queries about ClamAV

2015-01-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
He wants to know if ClamAV takes any corrective action such as quarantine or even remediate the problem by replacing corrupted files with originals. ClamAV does neither, but it can alert tertiary software to perform quarantining and provide notification of a need for user initiated remediation.

Re: [clamav-users] Need help to use a local server for updating

2015-01-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
The documentation in freshclam.conf for private mirrors says: # This option allows you to easily point freshclam to private mirrors. # If PrivateMirror is set, freshclam does not attempt to use DNS # to determine whether its databases are out-of-date, instead it will # use the If-Modified-Since

Re: [clamav-users] Configure Options For Minimal Install

2015-01-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 1/21/15 2:26 PM, E R wrote: Hi to all, I made this post over at Github, my assumptions that this is Clamav's Github? https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-devel/issues/14 I'm trying to figure out how to compile clamav as only a stand alone scanner when needed... Any help would be

Re: [clamav-users] Configure Options For Minimal Install

2015-01-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 1/21/15 5:22 PM, E R wrote: @Dennis, Al asked what platform, I said; Slack which = Slackware, hence I'm a Slacker. ;) What you don't think a Slacker knows how to do? ./configure --help log :) JUST KIDDING Dennis! :) But seriously, there's nothing in there to really strip it down, just a

Re: [clamav-users] Clamav on Debian

2015-01-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 1/13/15 7:17 AM, Richard Thibaudeau wrote: Hi everyone For at least two weeks I'm searching the Internet to find a solution to: root@debian:/# freshclam ERROR: Parse error at line 4: Unknown option LocalSocket ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf Please see

Re: [clamav-users] Which anti-virus do you prefer on Linux desktop?

2015-01-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 12/31/14 11:22 PM, Franklin Wang wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I've tried nod32, Dr. Web, AVG, clamav(the only open source one?), comodo, F-prot on the desktop(x86_64). Why can't I find reviews for them? There're many reviews for Windows platform, but few for Linux

Re: [clamav-users] Which anti-virus do you prefer on Linux desktop?

2015-01-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 1/1/15 10:26 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: I think the answer you are going to get from the ClamAV list is ClamAV. -- Joel Esler Open Source Manager Threat Intelligence Team Lead Talos It is also worth pointing out to n00bs and old timers alike this tag line from the ClamAV home page:

Re: [clamav-users] https support for freshclam

2014-12-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
intellectual property and that is justification for just about any solution you can come up with. dp On 12/29/14 6:43 AM, Torge Husfeldt wrote: Hi, Am 24.12.2014 um 12:09 schrieb Arnaud Jacques / SecuriteInfo.com: Le mardi 23 décembre 2014, 10:56:37 Dennis Peterson a écrit : Second try: What

Re: [clamav-users] Regarding Clamav 0.98.5 installation from source code

2014-12-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
What problem are you trying to solve with https? The data contain no secrets and are freely available to any who wish to have it, so the immediate effect of encryption is unneeded. Secondarily, https creates a greater server load to encrypt the data, trusted SSL certs are an added expense, and

Re: [clamav-users] Regarding Clamav 0.98.5 installation from source code

2014-12-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
What a dummy - I responded to the wrong post :) On 12/23/14 10:41 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml

Re: [clamav-users] https support for freshclam

2014-12-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Second try: What problem are you trying to solve with https? The data contain no secrets and are freely available to any who wish to have it, so the immediate effect of encryption is unneeded. Secondarily, https creates a greater server load to encrypt the data, trusted SSL certs are an added

Re: [clamav-users] url scanner

2014-12-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 12/18/14 6:29 AM, polloxx wrote: Since more and more malware is not attached to a mail but only an url to it, detecting it is challenge. Is there any good url scanner avalable for Clamav? Thx, P. The Sendmail/Postfix milter J-Chkmail (and front end for ClamAV) can use DNS or regular

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.98.5 has been released!

2014-11-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 11/18/14 2:11 PM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: http://blog.clamav.net/2014/11/clamav-0985-has-been-released.html ClamAV 0.98.5 has been released! Will there be a Clamav 1.0 in my lifetime? I'm pushing 70 :) dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV Splunk app

2014-11-15 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 11/15/14 9:22 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote: Hi there, On Sat, 15 Nov 2014, PJ Balsley wrote: I use clamav on hundreds of linux systems in our network. ... This is not a facetious question, it's one of genuine interest. Why? I did it too and the reason is compliance with credit card/social

Re: [clamav-users] check date

2014-11-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 11/9/14 4:52 AM, Saker Hamdy Mohamoud Salama wrote: Dears, I want to know the date of updated files (daily.cvd main.cvd). From a command line type: $ cd /path_to_files ls -l daily* main* For example, cd /var/lib/clamav ls -l daily* main* Compare the dates against your freshclam

Re: [clamav-users] Why are the ClamAV team so slow at creating signatures ?

2014-10-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 10/6/14 7:21 AM, Tim Smith wrote: Seriously, why should I mess around with creating virus signatures, its a waste of my time. Because that is the norm for community-supported products and because nobody but you is ultimately responsible for protecting your systems from malware. dp

Re: [clamav-users] Why are the ClamAV team so slow at creating signatures ?

2014-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 10/3/14 8:10:24AM, Mark Allan wrote: On 3 Oct 2014, at 03:39 pm, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Friday 03 October 2014 07:19:13 Tim Smith did opine Over the last 24-48 hours, I submitted a number of email attachments. RAR files that contained viruses. Running one or two of them

Re: [clamav-users] Why are the ClamAV team so slow at creating signatures ?

2014-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 10/3/14 2:11:15PM, Charles Swiger wrote: On Oct 3, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Leonardo Rodrigues leolis...@solutti.com.br wrote: On 03/10/14 08:19, Tim Smith wrote: All of the commercial vendors I submitted the samples to had analysed and created samples in timeframes ranging from hours to one day.

Re: [clamav-users] Whitelist Zip.Suspect.MiscDoubleExtension

2014-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
The question he asked is are regex expressions allowed in the whitelist file. I've never looked into it so don't know, but it seems like it could be a useful feature although extremely easy to abuse. What he would like to do is replace multiple similar entries that are causing FP's:

Re: [clamav-users] Locked freshclam.log error msg

2014-09-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Better, I think, is to start with what processes can lock the log file. Logrotate being one such. It is a small matter to disable this and wait and see. dp On 9/23/14 8:50 AM, Kevin Lin wrote: Have you tried to query what process is locking the log file? It is possible that multiple

Re: [clamav-users] FP: Win.Worm.Chir-681

2014-09-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/16/14 2:28 PM, Al Varnell wrote: The following file was found in Adobe PhotoShop CS6 infected with Win.Worm.Chir-681 (apparently added to the database earlier today): /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS6/Adobe Photoshop CS6.app/Contents/Required/Droplet Template.exe I’ve submitted it as a

Re: [clamav-users] Sanesecurity:foxhole-databases

2014-09-05 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/5/14 2:10 AM, Steve Basford wrote: Hi All, For those using Sanesecuriy foxhole databases, I've finally updated their usage information: http://sanesecurity.com/foxhole-databases/ Cheers, Steve Sanesecurity.com Steve - thanks for your contribution to the success of the ClamAV products.

Re: [clamav-users] Priority problem

2014-07-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 7/24/14, 12:47 PM, Bernard Thédié wrote: Le 24/07/2014 21:08, Matus UHLAR - fantomas a écrit : On 24.07.14 20:23, Bernard Thédié wrote: Silly reason... my computer has a very, very noisy fan. I'm afraid you can avoid this problem only by not using anything that eats CPU. well,

Re: [clamav-users] clamav 0.98.4 on Centos4

2014-07-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 7/4/14, 12:01 PM, René Bellora wrote: hi! I'm trying to compile Clamav 0.98.4 in Centos4, and i get this: configure: error: Your OpenSSL installation is missing the X509_VERIFY_PARAM function. Please upgrade to a more recent version of OpenSSL. this is a server that I don't control (I

Re: [clamav-users] Problem with ClamAV 0.98.4 - HAVP won't load CVD files

2014-06-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 6/26/14, 9:47 PM, Henrik K wrote: Hello, HAVP developer here. I'll release a new version if it's required, but I guess that will have to wait on the discussions. Hopefully it's not even necessary and 0.98.4 will remain an unused dark horse version.. Cheers, Henrik It is here. dp

Re: [clamav-users] Bad detection rate

2014-06-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
Why wouldn't ClamAV be interested in creating this signature as part of their own distribution? It's a virus, it's what you do, no? dp On 6/24/14, 11:14 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: On Jun 24, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.commailto:bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: On

Re: [clamav-users] Bad detection rate

2014-06-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 6/24/14, 9:16 PM, Al Varnell wrote: That’s certainly a valid question and deserves a ClamAV® answer, but I’ll throw this comment out. The signature team has always been overwhelmed by the number of new samples it receives every day and even though the team is bigger today, so is the input.

Re: [clamav-users] Bad detection rate

2014-06-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
The OP brought up several points, none of which were addressed. 1. Nevertheless, the detection rate of viruses, trojans, etc. is not very good. Almost every time I submit a sample file on virustotal.com ClamAV can not detect the virus or malware. 2. Up to now, I never got a notification,

Re: [clamav-users] Bad detection rate

2014-06-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Quick dump of found signature results: ClamAV vs Basford et al Unofficial sigs, total: grep UNOFFICIAL clam* |wc -l 174 Unofficial Sane Security sigs found grep Sanesecur.*FOUND clam* |wc -l 141 Official ClamAV sigs found: grep FOUND clam* |grep -c -v UNOFFICIAL 10 Non-Sanesecurity unofficial

Re: [clamav-users] Tips for low memory systems

2014-05-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/27/14, 7:45 PM, Michael Heuberger wrote: Thanks but sorry, the thread is too long and I'd prefer to get to the point ... Buy more memory. dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq

Re: [clamav-users] Signature matching email Subject:

2014-05-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/23/14, 11:15 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 23.05.14 12:25, Claudio Cuqui wrote: I would like to known if is it possible to create a virus signature that match the subject of a mail message. I tried everything and the signature only match when the pattern is located in the email

[clamav-users] 0.98.4rc1 build success

2014-05-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Built and runs fine in Centos 6.5. Signature updates works, sigusr2 forces a reload, no crashes. Works like a Mac. dp Platform information uname: Linux 2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 7 23:32:49 UTC 2014 x86_64 OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: x86_64, CPU: x86_64 zlib

Re: [clamav-users] Version 0.98.3 hard loops on clamdscan -V

2014-05-10 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/9/14, 7:26 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 05/09/2014 04:41 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/9/14, 7:33 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 5/8/2014 10:35 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: [root@qmt-cos5 etc]# grep -v ^# clamd.conf | grep -v ^$ Inefficiency bugs me... You can do multiple patterns

Re: [clamav-users] Version 0.98.3 hard loops on clamdscan -V

2014-05-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/9/14, 7:33 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 5/8/2014 10:35 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: [root@qmt-cos5 etc]# grep -v ^# clamd.conf | grep -v ^$ Inefficiency bugs me... You can do multiple patterns with a single grep using the -e flag. grep -v -e ^# -e ^$ clamd.conf Try (and there are surely

Re: [clamav-users] Version 0.98.3 fails on Solaris

2014-05-08 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/8/14, 8:23 AM, Shawn Webb wrote: Hey Martin, Is there a way you can get to me main.cvd.broken? I'm wondering if the change to OpenSSL for hashing has somehow changed parsing CVDs and CLDs on big-endian machines running Solaris. I thoroughly tested the code on a sparc64 machine (an old

Re: [clamav-users] Version 0.98.3 fails on Solaris

2014-05-08 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/8/14, 9:00 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/8/14, 8:23 AM, Shawn Webb wrote: Hey Martin, Is there a way you can get to me main.cvd.broken? I'm wondering if the change to OpenSSL for hashing has somehow changed parsing CVDs and CLDs on big-endian machines running Solaris. I thoroughly

Re: [clamav-users] Crash on reload. Version 0.98.3. Mac OS X 10.7.5

2014-05-07 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/7/14, 6:38 PM, James Brown wrote: Have just upgraded to version 0.98.3 from 0.98.1. Clamd starts fine, but anytime I reload the database (e.g. running freshclam) clamd will crash. Would you mind pasting in the output of clamconf too, please. I'd like to see the build options compared

Re: [clamav-users] clamav stops boot

2014-05-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/2/14, 8:34 AM, Greg Mueller wrote: Thank you for your response I did not install clamav, it came on a used computer.(not the one I'm using to write this email) I can't get that computer to boot at all so I can't upgrade. I just need to get the computer to go past the block in the boot

Re: [clamav-users] Silly question - clamav - linux viruses?

2014-04-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/17/14, 8:30 AM, Greg Folkert wrote: You wouldn't happen to be a Solaris or SCO person, would you? I'm retired after 3+ decades of using (in no particular order) SunOS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OSF/1-Tru64, HP-3000 running MPE, VAX-11/7XX, OS/400, BSD Unix, a brief stint with SCO Unix, and

Re: [clamav-users] Finding infections in a tar-ball

2014-04-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/17/14, 8:10 AM, David Raynor wrote: Though inconsistent, it is less interesting then it may appear. The scanning behavior is the same. Both return a clean disposition if limits are reached and no signatures alert, including a message at debug level describing which limit was exceeded. The

Re: [clamav-users] Silly question - clamav - linux viruses?

2014-04-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/17/14, 8:13 AM, Alain Zidouemba wrote: ClamAV does scan for linux viruses. If you install ClamAV, you can use the sigtool command to find signatures for unix-specific malware. Eg: sigtool --list-sigs /usr/local/share/clamav/daily.cld | grep -i 'unix' . . . Exploit.Shellcode.Unix-Gen-1

Re: [clamav-users] Finding infections in a tar-ball

2014-04-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/15/14, 7:36 AM, Steven Morgan wrote: Good news, it works. We are considering a --warn-on-limit-exceeded option to cover messaging in these types of cases. Steve I've found an interesting inconsistency when scanning archives. I tested this on an xz compressed tar file (the ClamAV

Re: [clamav-users] Finding infections in a tar-ball

2014-04-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/11/14, 1:31 AM, Mischa Coenen wrote: Hi, Clamscan can scan the contents of tar-balls for virusses, when I tar only a eicar-file than clamav detects it. But I did a test in which i have put an eicar file in different directories including the top-directory, clamscan cannot detect

Re: [clamav-users] clamav-milter: ClamAV, mi_rd_cmd: read returned -1: Connection reset by peer

2014-03-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/17/14, 7:43 AM, Marco wrote: I don't see log on Postfix correlated to these warning. Just two or three error a day like this, really: 2014-03-17T12:47:34.538025+01:00 postfix2 postfix/smtpd[17215]: warning: milter inet:example.com:7357: can't read SMFIC_MAIL reply packet header:

Re: [clamav-users] Planned Addition Of OpenSSL Dependency

2014-03-15 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/12/14, 12:13:53PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/2014/02/22/introducing-openssl-as-a-dependency-to-clamav/ I just noticed this. I do the clamav packages for Debian/Ubuntu. Adding the dependency is fine from a technical perspective, but there is, at least currently,

Re: [clamav-users] Low detection rate

2014-03-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/3/14, 4:28 AM, Steve Hill wrote: I'm using clamd together with exim under Scientific Linux 6.3 and I'm having problems with Clam not detecting many viruses - in fact, looking back through the logs it basically only seems to be finding a few phishing emails. Did you just send a link to a

Re: [clamav-users] Low detection rate

2014-03-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/3/14, 8:50 AM, Brian Morrison wrote: Steve is your Exim installation set up to reject mail on spamminess, using SpamAssassin or similar? I find that SA detects a lot of mail using SA rules that probably contain attachments or inline images that are virus laden, but it's cheaper on system

Re: [clamav-users] Keeping the ClamAV process open?

2014-03-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/2/14, 7:55 PM, Scott Snow wrote: I'm working on a MapReduce project using Amazon's EC2. The only bottleneck I have is that it takes ~35-40 seconds to scan each file, which seems very high. I'm using a c program as a wrapper for ClamAV, which takes a single file and the mode. Does anyone

Re: [clamav-users] clamav-users Digest, Vol 113, Issue 18

2014-02-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/27/14, 3:43:08PM, Paul Kosinski wrote: The blog post concerning OpenSSL being required for ClamAV only has one reason as to why it might *benefit* ClamAV, the other reasons are why OpenSSL *itself* in good. That single reason is: We will be able to provide a better freshclam experience

Re: [clamav-users] Introducing OpenSSL as a dependency to ClamAV

2014-02-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/26/14, 8:08 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: On Friday last week I put a blog post up about introducing OpenSSL into the ClamAV ecosystem. I wanted to make sure everyone saw it, so please have a look at the blog post here:

Re: [clamav-users] Introducing OpenSSL as a dependency to ClamAV

2014-02-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/26/14, 12:32 PM, Shawn Webb wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Dennis Peterson denni...@inetnw.comwrote: On 2/26/14, 8:08 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: On Friday last week I put a blog post up about introducing OpenSSL into the ClamAV ecosystem. I wanted to make sure everyone saw

Re: [clamav-users] Error message outdated version although yum list installed reports correct version of clamav

2014-02-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/19/14, 7:03:15PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 09:32:18PM -0500, Shawn Webb (sw...@sourcefire.com) wrote: On Feb 19, 2014 9:28 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach jo...@barrett.com.au wrote: [root /tmp] #yum list installed clamav* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Installed

Re: [clamav-users] Error message outdated version although yum list installed reports correct version of clamav

2014-02-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/19/14, 7:32:12PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: # yum list installed clam* clamav.x86_640.98.1-1.el6 installed clamav-db.x86_64 0.98.1-1.el6 installed clamav-devel.x86_64 0.98.1-1.el6 installed clamav-unofficial-sigs.noarch3.7.1

Re: [clamav-users] Debian packaging

2014-02-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/12/14, 6:29 AM, Andrew Kelly wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 21:28 -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 2/11/14, 8:06 AM, Andrew Kelly wrote: So. bump! So. Andy - You do know that this is the wrong list for complaints about Debian support, right? You might have better luck here

Re: [clamav-users] Debian packaging

2014-02-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/11/14, 8:06 AM, Andrew Kelly wrote: So. bump! Nearly mid February 2014 now. 0.98.1 has been available for a month already, and Debian is still stuck at 0.97.8. Is there any kind of formal statement from the package maintainer, or is this simply an orphaned project? Andy So.

[clamav-users] Spam bounces from this list

2014-02-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
FYI - I had some bounces this week because Gene Heskett's URI in the following quote is trapped by uribl.com: nslookup geneslinuxbox.net.multi.uribl.com Server: 127.0.0.1 Address:127.0.0.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: geneslinuxbox.net.multi.uribl.com Address: 127.0.0.2

Re: [clamav-users] Possible FP

2014-02-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/6/14, 7:54 AM, Douglas Goddard wrote: Looking at the original file and what was uploaded to VT, this signature is the md5sum of 43180 null bytes. While I would say this is definitely Junk.Corrupted, it's not malicious. I'll drop it. Thanks for the report. There's more you should do

Re: [clamav-users] Spam bounces from this list

2014-02-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
geneslinuxbox.net.multi.uribl.com should return address not found. If it is 127.0.0.X then there is still an issue. dp On 2/6/14, 1:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2014 16:08:01 Dennis Peterson did opine: Dennis, you seem to be using a very old cache of uribl, I have been cleared from

Re: [clamav-users] Spam bounces from this list

2014-02-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/6/14, 1:54 PM, Bryan Burke wrote: Perhaps your blackholing problem is an indication of more problems - we can ask the members to repeat the nslookup of your domain to see if others get the results I got below. nslookup geneslinuxbox.net.multi.uribl.com should return address not found. If

Re: [clamav-users] Spam bounces from this list

2014-02-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
: Dennis Peterson denni...@inetnw.com nslookup geneslinuxbox.net.multi.uribl.com is only going to tell someone where the first (of probably many) layered DNS servers are. Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) takes this to an extreme by running a cacheing name server on the desktop. i.e.: Unfortunately, I'm not aware

Re: [clamav-users] [Clamav-announce] ClamAV®: ClamAV Mailing List Maintenance, Monday, February 10th, 2014

2014-02-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/6/14, 3:12:09PM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: http://blog.clamav.net/2014/02/clamav-mailing-list-maintenance-monday.html ClamAV Mailing List Maintenance, Monday, February 10th, 2014 This notice is for the members of the ClamAV mailing lists found here:

Re: [clamav-users] HTML.CVE_2012_1526-3 necessary?

2014-02-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/4/14, 4:17 AM, Andre Hübner wrote: Hello, is a signatur like this HTML.CVE_2012_1526-3 really needed?

Re: [clamav-users] clam av Red Hat installation

2013-12-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
What are the zlib failure details? You will probably also need zlib-devel to compile Clamav. dp On 12/23/13, 9:29:43PM, Joshua Soulwin Malayappan wrote: Hi, I tried to install Clam av in Red Hat Enterprise Server Release:6.3 I got the below error Failed dependencies:

Re: [clamav-users] clam av Red Hat installation

2013-12-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
...@lists.clamav.net [mailto:clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf Of Dennis Peterson Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 11:40 AM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [clamav-users] clam av Red Hat installation What are the zlib failure details? You will probably also need zlib-devel to compile Clamav

Re: [clamav-users] System plays the William Tell Overture

2013-11-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 11/26/13, 5:27 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 11/26/2013 06:47 PM, Dave Pitts wrote: Like at 4:30pm MT every day. It may play at other times. But, I can't say. Do you have any asshole friends who've used your PC lately? This sounds like the answer to the question, I have my buddy Dave's

Re: [clamav-users] Errore aggiornamento clamav

2013-11-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 11/8/13, 10:59 AM, xxdiskoxx2011 . wrote: Clamav is perfectly installed. Other i have installed GUI for CLAMAV Il 08/nov/2013 19:40 David Raynor dray...@sourcefire.com ha scritto: Clamav is probably perfectly installed, but Clamav does not necessarily include clamd or clamd.conf,

Re: [clamav-users] Errore aggiornamento clamav

2013-11-08 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 11/8/13, 7:57 AM, xxdiskoxx2011 . wrote: /etc/cron.daily/freshclam: ERROR: Parse error at line 17: Unknown option UpdateLogFile ERROR: NotifyClamd: Can't find or parse configuration file /etc/clamd.conf Type the following at the command line: rpm -qa |grep clam Send back the results -

Re: [clamav-users] - Can't connect to UNIX, socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl

2013-10-31 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 10/31/13, 5:08 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote: hi everybody, I installed a web/mail server correctly with the suite ispconfig. between the packages I installed amavis and clamav However, the email will be populated with the object UNCECKED and the system logs I see this: Run the clamconf

Re: [clamav-users] clamd socket permissions

2013-09-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/27/13 5:14 PM, Bob Miller wrote: I am sorry that this reply is rather late, but for the sake of completeness and for the benefit of anyone who finds himself chasing this same problem, I would report that I have determined that the problem here was simscan, and not clamav. Thanks for

Re: [clamav-users] scanning RPMs with clamav

2013-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/25/13 9:36 AM, David Raynor wrote: ClamAV does not currently have that functionality, though as you found in your testing it does have support for cpio if you unpack the contents. We are working on a bunch of things for upcoming releases, but as always I cannot make any promises about

Re: [clamav-users] Compiler error: 7z/Types.h:58: redefinition of `Byte'

2013-09-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/23/13 1:59:42PM, Shawn Webb wrote: Maybe this time I'll actually attach the patch. ;) I believe the list server discourages attachments. dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net

Re: [clamav-users] Database download problems

2013-09-20 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/20/13 2:01 AM, Jose-Marcio Martins wrote: Is there a problem with database mirrors ? The download behaviour I see from my side, since yesterday, when trying to get clamav databases (main.cvd, daily.cvd, ...) is something like a 600 K/s pic for (probably) just a single packet, then the

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV®: ClamAV 0.98 has been released!

2013-09-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/19/13 12:04 PM, Joel Esler wrote: http://blog.clamav.net/2013/09/clamav-098-has-been-released.html ClamAV 0.98 has been released! The link on the clamav.net site still references 0.97.8. dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide:

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV®: ClamAV 0.98 has been released!

2013-09-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/19/13 1:04 PM, Joel Esler wrote: which page? I’m seeing .98 http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/download/sources/ It's fixed now - thanks. dp On Sep 19, 2013, at 3:21 PM, Dennis Peterson denni...@inetnw.com wrote: On 9/19/13 12:04 PM, Joel Esler wrote: http://blog.clamav.net/2013

Re: [clamav-users] clamd taking too long to restart?

2013-08-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 8/14/13 2:23:28PM, David Raynor wrote: I'll look a bit more at how we are loading the interim signature state and see what else we could do with the sorting. Meanwhile, this is a change you could put into practice now and get faster startup times. Before making any change on a server

Re: [clamav-users] clamd socket permissions

2013-08-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 7/30/13 11:18:36AM, Bob Miller wrote: Hello, I am trying to trace the reasoning behind behaviour I don't understand with regard to permissions on the clamd.socket and simscan. What is the state of selinux on your system? This is found in some distributions by running getenforce at the

Re: [clamav-users] clamd socket permissions

2013-07-31 Thread Dennis Peterson
Running clamd as root is probably a bad idea but I can imagine a lot of debate I'm not interested in rising from that statement. It is not something I would do. When I hit this problem of allowing clamd and my milters to share that and other sockets I put them all in the same UID/GID (not

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