Re: [Clamav-users] block attachment with certain file endings (also in archives)

2010-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/28/10 5:40 AM, Daniel McDonald wrote: On 9/28/10 2:05 AM, Dennis Petersondenni...@inetnw.com wrote: On 9/27/10 11:55 PM, Török Edwin wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:36:15 +0200 If you want to reject by content, you can do that as well (only for nonencrypted archives of course) by

Re: [Clamav-users] Tracking false positives

2010-09-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/27/10 1:24 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, In addition, there a brilliant Third-Party signature decoder here, which will easily show you the content of the Third-Party signature, just cut/paste or type in the signature name and it'll decode it: http://www.sanesecurity.com/clamav/decodesigs.htm

Re: [Clamav-users] VirusAction Question

2010-09-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/21/10 9:55 PM, Nathan Gibbs wrote: * Nathan Gibbs wrote: I won't say that my implementation is the best way, it certainly isn't pretty, but it works. Now will the REAL C CODERS PLEASE STAND UP! Do it right and show me how its done. Better yet, just do it right the first time, and I

[Clamav-users] Success: clamav-096.3

2010-09-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
It builds and runs without weirdness on Solaris 9, Sparc, gcc 3.3.2, Solaris 10, Sparc, gcc 3.4.2, Apple OS X Snow Leopard 32-bit, gcc 4.2.1, Snow Leopard Server 64-bit, gcc 4.2.1, and Red Hat Linux 5.4, gcc 4.1.2. I'm happy here. And yes, 3.3.2 is getting pretty old and tired. dp

Re: [Clamav-users] VirusAction Question

2010-09-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/22/10 6:58 AM, Nathan Gibbs wrote: Those guys could do this better than me any day of the week. They could code circles around me, but so far they won't. what does that tell you? They have higher priorities. dp ___ Help us build a

Re: [Clamav-users] Again - clamav.whitelist file

2010-09-15 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/15/10 5:58 AM, cla...@pcez.com wrote: Hello, Let's try it again. I did not get a response last time so I will try it again not trying to insult anyone with my stupidly. I'm trying to use the whitelist file without much success. Could someone post your clamav.whitelist file so I can see

Re: [Clamav-users] Tracking false positives

2010-09-15 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/15/10 7:47 AM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:22:48 -0700 Dennis Petersondenni...@inetnw.com wrote: Time tests of sigtool --find-sigs compared to grep. The output of either sigtool or grep can be piped back in to sigtool --decode-sigs: $ time sigtool --find-sigs

Re: [Clamav-users] Tracking false positives

2010-09-15 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/15/10 11:15 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:05:02 -0700 Dennis Petersondenni...@inetnw.com wrote: On 9/15/10 7:47 AM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:22:48 -0700 Dennis Petersondenni...@inetnw.com wrote: Time tests of sigtool --find-sigs compared to grep. The

Re: [Clamav-users] Again - clamav.whitelist file

2010-09-15 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/15/10 10:02 AM, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:36:44 -0700 Dennis Petersondenni...@inetnw.com articulated: Some of us see that request as a breach of etiquette as well as a security risk. I really don't wish to publish my free pass info :) So you enter random data in the fields. T

Re: [Clamav-users] Tracking false positives

2010-09-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/14/10 1:55 AM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:54:28 +0100 Steve Basford steveb_cla...@sanesecurity.com wrote: In addition, there a brilliant Third-Party signature decoder here, which will easily show you the content of the Third-Party signature, just cut/paste or type in the

[Clamav-users] DatabaseDirectory location

2010-09-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
Has any thought been given to allowing optional additional database directory locations? I've never been real happy mixing the OFFICIAL signatures with the UNOFFICIAL signatures, and there are some pragmatic reasons for avoiding this intermingling. Perhaps: DatabaseDirectoryIncludePath

Re: [Clamav-users] exclude path

2010-09-05 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/5/10 12:11 PM, Ted the insane wrote: Hello, How to exclude path form clamd? And without Clamuko. Thank you Best regards ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml Try

Re: [Clamav-users] Functionality level warning message after upgrade to 0.96.2

2010-08-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 8/23/10 7:45 AM, Jean Jacques Siebrits wrote: WARNING: Current functionality level = 44, recommended = 51 rpm -qi clamav Sorry, I forgot to mention it was a source installation. Configuration string was: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/var/run/clamav

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV Releases

2010-08-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 8/16/10 11:38 AM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: Dear users, ClamAV 0.96.2 was released on August 12, 2010. If you missed it check it out here: http://www.clamav.net/download/sources. Highlights include: It's compiled and runs fine in Solaris 9 and 10, and RHEL 5.4, here. 9.6.1 did not put a notice

Re: [Clamav-users] MSRBL signatures?

2010-08-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 8/3/10 12:35 AM, Steve Basford wrote: I've discontinued using them because of the lack of activity. I've also shut off SecuriteInfo and because of false positives, InetMsg signatures. Hi Dennis, If any FP's are reported here: false_positive AT sanesecurity DOT me DOT uk And surely the

Re: [Clamav-users] MSRBL signatures?

2010-08-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 8/6/10 6:20 PM, Bill Landry wrote: On 8/6/2010 9:42 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 8/3/10 12:35 AM, Steve Basford wrote: I've discontinued using them because of the lack of activity. I've also shut off SecuriteInfo and because of false positives, InetMsg signatures. Hi Dennis, If any

Re: [Clamav-users] MSRBL signatures?

2010-08-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 8/2/10 7:48 PM, Alex wrote: Hi all, I was thinking of implementing the MSRBL signatures, as they are described on the sanesecurity site, but it appears they haven't been updated in quite some time. I wouldn't have considered it, except that they are listed on the sanesecurity site. Are they

Re: [Clamav-users] Mobile devices?

2010-07-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 7/26/10 4:27 AM, Moray Henderson wrote: Now that mobile telephones have become advanced (stupid?) enough to require virus protection, can ClamAV be usefully run on a mobile? Or can anyone recommend free AV software for mobile devices? Virus protection is a heavy weight process that does

Re: [Clamav-users] Some questions about clamav update

2010-07-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 07/06/2010 09:38 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, JD-- So, the fedora distro people screwed up by setting it to level 44 in the source code? Is it possible you installed only a clam client and not the full suite? So, should I be bringing this up with the fedora team? Check first

Re: [Clamav-users] Some questions about clamav update

2010-07-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 07/06/2010 10:28 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 07/06/2010 09:38 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, JD-- So, the fedora distro people screwed up by setting it to level 44 in the source code? Is it possible you installed only a clam client and not the full suite? You must

Re: [Clamav-users] clamdscan errors

2010-07-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 7/6/10 3:27 PM, JD wrote: I ran: $ sudo clamdscan -l /tmp/clamdscan.log /sda1 /sda1 is the mount point for my windows partition. I got tons of error mssages like this one: /sda1/WINDOWS/Installer/265ad74.msp: Can't create temporary directory ERROR In what directory is clamdscan trying

Re: [Clamav-users] clamdscan errors

2010-07-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 7/6/10 5:31 PM, JD wrote: On 07/06/2010 05:00 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: clamconf |grep TemporaryDir $ clamconf |grep TemporaryDir TemporaryDirectory = /var/tmp TemporaryDirectory disabled Is that what's causing it? The disabled setting? Where do I enable it? Now that we see you have

Re: [Clamav-users] PUA.HTML.Infected.WebPage-1

2010-06-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 6/3/10 5:57 AM, Steve Basford wrote: You can use 'sigtool -fPUA.HTML.Infected.WebPage' to find and print the sigs, no need to unpack. Also works for: sigtool -fSanesecurity.Phishing.Fake.13780 | sigtool --decode-sigs Could a --database type option be added to sigtool, for loading

Re: [Clamav-users] Reload process

2010-05-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/25/10 7:51 AM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2010 16:27:48 +0200 Sarocetsaro...@gmail.com wrote: Tomasz Kojm wrote: This scenario makes no much sense to me. First of all, as I wrote in the previous email the files you provided as example are almost identical (they only differ in high

Re: [Clamav-users] Reload process

2010-05-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/22/10 1:12 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On 05/22/2010 08:34 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: Has the team explored the notion of checking MD5 hashes of signature files before deciding to reload them? This might be useful if partial reloads would be supported, but see below. clamd checks

Re: [Clamav-users] [Windows] How does ClamAV compare with closed-source alternatives?

2010-05-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/13/10 11:46 PM, Török Edwin wrote: On 05/14/2010 08:19 AM, Jason Haar wrote: On 05/14/2010 02:52 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/13/10 7:10 PM, Jason Haar wrote: Why is Sourcefire allowing a third-party to use their brandname (and linking to their site) when it doesn't use ClamAV code

Re: [Clamav-users] Duplicate signature files

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 12:16 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On 05/21/2010 08:40 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/20/10 10:27 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: While testing my build of 0.96.1 today I was alerted by a screen message on starting clamd that I had two bytecode files - compressed and uncompressed. I removed

Re: [Clamav-users] Duplicate signature files

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 7:17 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On 05/21/2010 05:15 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: This is Solaris 9 on Sparc. OK, I'll do some tests on Solaris9/Sparc. Is everything OK on Solaris10/Sparc? Haven't built that one yet. I'm still trying to understand what happened here. dp

Re: [Clamav-users] Duplicate signature files

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 7:17 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On 05/21/2010 05:15 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: I don't get this error, what OS/arch is this? ERROR: Failed to load new database: Malformed database This message was in freshclam's log though, right? This is Solaris 9 on Sparc. OK, I'll do some

Re: [Clamav-users] Duplicate signature files

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 8:14 AM, Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: If your using wget: form the man pages under -c option Note that you don’t need to specify this option if you just want the current invocation of Wget to retry downloading a file should the connection be lost midway through. This is

Re: [Clamav-users] Tiered freshclam updates on port443

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 8:33 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: It may not have happened on your network, but it's (filtering outbound traffic) saved our bacon several times over the years, especially back in the Code Red/Nimda days. And, in an educational setting (I work for a school district now), you definitely do

Re: [Clamav-users] Duplicate signature files

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 8:22 AM, Török Edwin wrote: -lmalloc? That looks like something related to the memory allocation failure? Can you try without it? And I'll try to see if I can reproduce the problem with -lmalloc. Yep it fails with -lmalloc here. Please remove that from LDFLAGS, and it should

Re: [Clamav-users] upgrade to 0.96.1

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 9:28 PM, ClamAV List wrote: Hi, I upgraded to 0.96.1. Whenever I restart clamd, it will prompt me the error below. Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: LibClamAV Warning: Detected duplicate databases /var/clamav/main.cvd and /var/clamav/main.cld, please manually remove one of them

[Clamav-users] Reload process

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
Has the team explored the notion of checking MD5 hashes of signature files before deciding to reload them? Is it even possible to reload only those that have changed since the last reload? dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit

Re: [Clamav-users] Tiered freshclam updates on port443

2010-05-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/10/10 8:43 AM, Eddie Ekwo wrote: Hello Everyone. I am new to using ClamAV and I have searched through the mail archives for help/pointers on setting up a tired freshclam update environment. I have got a server that has access to the internet on port 80, so updates from internet are not

Re: [Clamav-users] notification when clamd engine outdated

2010-05-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/13/10 7:54 AM, Cliff Hayes wrote: Hello, I am a system administrator who manages many servers and need a way to programatically ping clamd on a server and get a response which I can interpret to mean clamd is ok or the engine needs to be updated. Unfortunately, I often get overwhelmed and

Re: [Clamav-users] [Windows] How does ClamAV compare with closed-source alternatives?

2010-05-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/12/10 12:59 PM, Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: ClamWin Free Antivirus is based on ClamAV engine and uses GNU General Public License by the Free Software Foundation, and is free (as in freedom) software. To find out more about GNU GPL, please visit the following link: Philosophy of the GNU

Re: [Clamav-users] [Windows] How does ClamAV compare with closed-source alternatives?

2010-05-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/13/10 7:10 PM, Jason Haar wrote: On 05/13/2010 01:57 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: No, ClamAV for Windows currently does not use the ClamAV engine (although there is talk of adding it in). It instead uses Immunet's cloud-based antivirus. http://www.immunet.com/protect Huh? That comes as a

Re: [Clamav-users] [Windows] How does ClamAV compare with closed-source alternatives?

2010-05-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/13/10 10:19 PM, Jason Haar wrote: On 05/14/2010 02:52 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/13/10 7:10 PM, Jason Haar wrote: Why is Sourcefire allowing a third-party to use their brandname (and linking to their site) when it doesn't use ClamAV code itself? It supports other AV vendor products

Re: [Clamav-users] safebrowsing updates CPU hog

2010-05-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/12/10 3:58 PM, Wolfgang Breyha wrote: Hi! In the last week I noticed several times that freshclam needs up to 30 minutes using a full CPU to update safebrowsing database. Most of the time the next update shows Empty script safebrowsing-20426.cdiff, need to download entire database What's

Re: [Clamav-users] Some doubts about Clamav upgrade

2010-05-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/4/10 1:25 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: Add the volatile repo to /etc/apt/sources.list, if it's not already there. Then it's a simple: aptitude update aptitude install clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam aptitude will install everything else automatically. Does it first uninstall the

Re: [Clamav-users] FW: [clamav-virusdb] Update (daily: 10917) --about Virus.MSExcel.Agent.c

2010-05-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/4/10 8:01 PM, eric wrote: Strange, clamav has been update, but still cannt found Virus.MSExcel.Agent.c , Any idea will be appreciate. It's there. It isn't called Virus.MSExcel.Agent.c: X97M.Escape:0:*:74696d6576616c7565{-14}22737461727475702e786c732179636f7022*6f6e2e73746172747570 dp

Re: [Clamav-users] Some doubts about Clamav upgrade

2010-05-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/4/10 5:56 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Dennis Petersondenni...@inetnw.com wrote: On 5/4/10 1:25 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: Add the volatile repo to /etc/apt/sources.list, if it's not already there. Then it's a simple: aptitude update aptitude install

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-05-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/3/10 12:09 AM, Mark wrote: On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Sarocet wrote: The ClamAV team didn't design the AV to stop on getting a special signature. That signature could exist due to a bug that you decided not to fix (by not updating/patching). It was a clever use of a bug to disable the

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/3/10 8:45 AM, Alex wrote: Hi, Dennis Peterson wrote: Rsync is able to transfer only the differences between two files provided a version of the file being transferred exists on the source and the destination. In addition, rsync will not transfer anything if it determines

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/3/10 8:45 AM, Simon Hobson wrote: It's actually more efficient than that ! It uses something similar to a rolling checksum to find throughout the file. So in principal, you can add a short bit to the front of a large file, or even chop a file up into chunks and rearrange them, and it will

Re: [Clamav-users] byte code compiler configure issues

2010-05-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/2/10 8:14 AM, Tom Shaw wrote: Trying now let you know in about 10 10.5.8 right now. 10.6 after we get this working Tom I was able to compile .96 in Snow Leopard with no modification. dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/2/10 9:59 AM, Alex wrote: Hi, Why are some of the databases duplicated in the clamav root dir and also in the unofficial-dbs/ss-dbs directory, such as winnow_malware.hdb? The rsync protocol only downloads the changes between the local and remote files, so the local file much be

Re: [Clamav-users] Update problem on daily.cld

2010-04-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/29/10 7:06 AM, Adam Stephens wrote: That error doesn't come from the mirrors; it comes from freshclam - the message is in manager.c, and it's triggered by this check in mirman.c: if(mdat-dbflevel (mdat-dbflevel flevel) (mdat-dbflevel - flevel 3)) if(time(NULL) - mdat-mirtab[i].atime

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-04-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
Hi, I've done some research on the best way to integrate it, but hoped someone could point me to a current document that outlines how to do this and help me answer some of my questions. The best way to integrate them is to follow the instructions at Steve's web site (Sane Security).

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd was NOT notified

2010-04-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/26/10 6:01 PM, Mark wrote: Hello, I just upgraded to clamav 0.96.1 on FreeBSD 7. Everyhing seemed to be running fine, except that I suddenly got this message in my freshclam log: WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't find or parse configuration file yes It used to say Clamd

Re: [Clamav-users] Yet more clubbing of deceased equine.

2010-04-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/24/10 6:36 AM, Stephen Gran wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 05:02:07PM -0700, Chris Knight said: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Christopher X. Candreva ch...@westnet.com wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Simon Hobson wrote: So, it still runs the software it used to run ? Yes It's running

Re: [Clamav-users] Problems with db.ca.clamav.net mirror

2010-04-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/23/10 8:41 AM, Jim Preston wrote: Just a question, but what time is freshclam running? Most of the time a majority of people run freshclam at the top of the hour which means you are in heavy competition for resources. I have mine set to run via cron at ten minutes after the hour. Jim

Re: [Clamav-users] Problems with db.ca.clamav.net mirror

2010-04-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/23/10 10:46 AM, Dennis Peterson denni...@inetnw.com wrote: On 4/23/10 8:41 AM, Jim Preston wrote: Just a question, but what time is freshclam running? Most of the time a majority of people run freshclam at the top of the hour which means you are in heavy competition

Re: [Clamav-users] Way, way, way OT: Re: (no subject)

2010-04-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/21/10 11:08 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote: Alienating those 'asshat whiners' will revert them to being windows admins, and our career prospects dwindle ever further. I'm over that, too. It means I'll always have a job if there is no competition. I don't have any notion of ever being a

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-04-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/21/10 11:16 AM, Stephen Gran wrote: Faced with an old release of software that will die if the team uses new functionality due to a known bug, and people who will not upgrade to the version that fixes this bug, and a reasonably urgent need to use the new functionality, what exactly would

Re: [Clamav-users] On a happier (but slightly OT) note...

2010-04-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/21/10 12:10 PM, Francesco Peeters wrote: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/21/mcafee-update--shutting-down-xp-machines/?sms_ss=email :-þ Received from McAfee earlier today: Folks, I have been collecting information as it has been flowing across the wire on my side. If you are not the

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/21/10 8:03 PM, Steve Wray wrote: I believe that best practice with this sort of thing is to only issue warnings and not to actually force a potentially harmful change without *express* consent of the user. Suggest at least one way to inform all the users successfully that obsolete

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/21/10 8:20 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: know way of knowing What the hell? Did I write that? :) dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/21/10 10:06 PM, Eric Rostetter wrote: Quoting Jim Preston jimli...@commspeed.net: Read what I said. *functional* not security. Like, for example, php is at 5.2.6 on lenny, unless you configure is differently. That's the whole point of releases. There are distros that release functional

Re: [Clamav-users] Way, way, way OT: Re: (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/21/10 10:31 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote: Personally I'd like to see the masses catered for. There's your problem. The masses are stump stupid. Ever was it so. It is no accident that 'exceptional' means not typical. Exceptional does not include the masses. If the best we shoot for is to

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/19/10 9:22 AM, Jim Preston wrote: But on a more serious note, what method would you like to have had them take to make you aware of the impending failure? The question wasn't directed to my but I'd like to see them be more selective as to who should be allowed to use this product.

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/19/10 1:17 PM, Dan wrote: Really, a mission-critical product such as ClamAV needs to be watched by the sysadmin, not left for someone else to do it for you. You've passed the IQ test. Next. dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide:

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/18/10 1:27 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote: Shame you haven't talked to to others - like havp for example - before doing this. The announcement to EOL the old releases was made at the start of october last year. If people using clam as an integral part of their software don't read announcements,

Re: [Clamav-users] Lots of pread fail warnings during scanning

2010-04-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/18/10 3:11 PM, Hauke Duden wrote: OK. Sorry for the confusion. Shouldn't this be in the FAQ (or was I just too blind to find it?)? I'd hate to think that I am the only one making this mistake. ClamAV is an antivirus tool. It is reasonable to expect it will be used on file systems

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/17/10 9:03 PM, Jim Preston wrote: I whole heartedly agree Dan. However I have been slandered today being called arrogant and ignorant, so what do I know? Yutz on the left, mench on the right. This EOL process has been a test. It was a simple test to separate yutz from mench. If you

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/16/10 8:05 AM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Was the 'stop gap' really useful? To which purpose? Did the ClamAV team meant to stop old installations to work, in order to silence competitors? Perhaps to teach to clamav users about the very complex nature of today systems and services?

Re: [Clamav-users] Can the builders quit screwing with the Socket configs?

2010-04-15 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/15/10 11:33 AM, James Kinter wrote: Thanks Edwin. I think I get them from Dag, but Ill check and email the appropriate offenders :-) I setup a YUM repo to point to somewhere, so every update comes from the same place every time. Getting them from the same place is no guarantee that

[Clamav-users] Odd FP signature

2010-04-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
One of my customers in Eastern Washington just got some mail blocked because of this non-Clamav pattern: :INetMsg.SpamDomain-2w.gonzaga_edu:4:*:(2e|2f|40|20|3c|5f)676f6e7a6167612e656475(27|22|20|2f|3d|5f|3e|0a|0d) No way I'm telling the Zag's they're not getting their mail :) Point being is

Re: [Clamav-users] list email cancel

2010-04-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/9/10 2:49 PM, Michael Swank wrote: Please take me off the email list for now. Thank you. mikesw...@aol.com Instructions on how to do that are in every email header this list sends. dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit

Re: [Clamav-users] infos

2010-03-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/24/10 7:31 AM, Del Monte Paolo wrote: Hi Giampaolo, Are you sure that I can download the upgrade from a window server and put it in a second time on a hpux server. The automatic upgrade don't depend on the platform on witch I configure freshclam? The clam scanners (clamd, clamscan) don't

Re: [Clamav-users] Still fighting with clamav-milter on remote machine to clamd....

2010-03-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/16/10 2:38 PM, Nathan Gibbs wrote: * Steve Holdoway wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 08:25 -0500, Nathan Gibbs wrote: I get those errors with these clamd settings CommandReadTimeout 120 ReadTimeout 900 This is with the milter load balancing across 5 nodes. Cheap, Fast, Right, pick two.

Re: [Clamav-users] Still fighting with clamav-milter on remote machine to clamd....

2010-03-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/16/10 6:01 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote: So I'm stuck in this situation, with a clamd server at the same dc, but connecting over tcp port 3310 just times out. I've sent the requestor a tcpdump ( brave man and thanks! ), but am not too thrilled at posting it publicly, as in anonymizing it I

Re: [Clamav-users] Sender and recipient of blocked messages not appearing in logs, only UNKNOWN

2010-03-07 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/7/10 3:06 PM, Robert S wrote: I have been getting these messages in my logs when a message is detected as a virus: Mar 8 08:44:56 mypc clamav-milter[6112]: Message o27LiRP8029635 from UNKNOWN to UNKNOWN with subject 'Important notice: Google' message-id 'UNKNOWN' date 'UNKNOWN' infected by

Re: [Clamav-users] Useless message on update failure in local mirror config.

2010-03-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/2/10 7:58 AM, Nathan Gibbs wrote: Question. Why does freshclam suggest checking http://www.clamav.net/support/mirror-problem for possible problems with a a LOCAL MIRROR when it KNOWS that its checking a local mirror. There is nothing on that page that is inappropriate for debugging

Re: [Clamav-users] Useless message on update failure in local mirror config.

2010-03-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/2/10 10:14 AM, Nathan Gibbs wrote: Not functional issues, just a couple rough edges that could use sanding. You have an idea and the source code - implement it and submit the change. If there is a pent up demand to prevent that lying SOB (freshclam) from spinning yarns in the logs then

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting ***UNCHECKED*** on some emails I send out.

2010-02-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/26/10 8:59 AM, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:14:50 +1300 Steve Holdowayst...@greengecko.co.nz articulated: You what? In the last case I had a problem, it was a networked pc infected with a trojan spewing spam out. Just *how* does SMTP Auth stop this? Your lack of knowledge is

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting ***UNCHECKED*** on some emails I send out.

2010-02-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/25/10 6:09 AM, Steven Stern wrote: If you're sending mail directly from your client to Google's SMTP servers, your ISP isn't touching it as the connection to Google is encrypted. What are you using for an SMTP server? For example, I'm typing this in Thunderbird and the smtp server for

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting ***UNCHECKED*** on some emails I send out.

2010-02-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/24/10 6:52 AM, Steven Stern wrote: On 02/24/2010 08:06 AM, Jason (spot) Brower wrote: It seems that some emails couldn't be checked. Encrypted Zip files in particular. It seems that when I try to send them from Evolution (Ubuntu 9.10) I get this message sent to my recipients. Is there

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting ***UNCHECKED*** on some emails I send out.

2010-02-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/24/10 8:38 AM, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:33:09 -0500 Kris Deugaukdeu...@vianet.ca articulated: Steven Stern wrote: Checking outgoing mail is pointless. Why bother? So you can reduce malware propagation? (And as a result, maybe not end up on everyone's local blacklist for

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting ***UNCHECKED*** on some emails I send out.

2010-02-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/24/10 9:15 AM, Jim Preston wrote: No Dennis, you would just know they are coming from the spammer and not zombies. Then again, there would be far fewer zombies if people took personal responsibility for their computers There are relatively few end points on the Internet that send mail out

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting ***UNCHECKED*** on some emails I send out.

2010-02-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/24/10 10:10 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le Wed 24/02/2010, Dennis Peterson disait There are relatively few end points on the Internet that send mail out without going through an ISP's gateway. I'm not so sure about this. Compaies do not use ISP gateways... Count the companies vs end users

Re: [Clamav-users] question on install, clamav user/group and LDAP

2010-02-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/3/10 11:29 AM, Lesiak, Stephen wrote: We auth through LDAP and I noticed there was a piece in the install that allowed for specifying a UID and GID. I created clamav as a user and group in our instance of LDAP: -sh-3.2# id clamav uid=20722(clamav) gid=1045(clamav)

Re: [Clamav-users] Script updated: clamav-unofficial-sigs.sh (v3.7)

2010-01-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 1/23/10 10:12 PM, John Rudd wrote: removes MSRBL (as it's no longer being updated) Did they declare themselves to be defunct, or are you declaring it for them (without any actual announcement from them)? The most recent news from them is Jan of this year: http://msrbl.blogspot.com/ They

Re: [Clamav-users] ExcludePath, defining absolute path

2009-12-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 12/15/09 10:11 PM, dev.ad...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hi, I know this is an old topic that seems to have caused some problems in the past and has apparently been fixed in version .3, but I still can't get it to work. I'm using OSX and I would like to scan the boot volume but one of the

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd reload - reloading logfile failed ?

2009-12-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 12/12/09 7:21 PM, Jason Frisvold wrote: Hi all, I seem to be having some problem with clamd and logrotate. Logrotate reloads clamd after rotating the logfile and creating a new one, but clamd fails reload with the following : Reloading log file:

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd as a service

2009-12-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
Mark Gregory wrote: Hi, If clamdscan calls clamd when it is run as a scheduled task is there a reason for having clamd running as a windows service? It appears that it would be loaded and using RAM for no reason. If you are not in a hurry or not concerned with your scanning process spending

Re: [Clamav-users] OT Dennis - Barracuda - this is how cheap they are...

2009-12-05 Thread Dennis Peterson
lists wrote: Dennis, to give you some idea (if you did not already know) how cheap Barracuda Networks are, they advertise for staff on Craigslist - because it is free: I am truly stunned you are so wound around Barracuda. I don't give a rip one way or the other about them and I've not even

Re: [Clamav-users] How does Clam stand up to Commercial A/V?

2009-12-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
lists wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 19:32 -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/legal/ It's so good that TrendMicro thought it worth going to court to stop it. It is good - and thanks to Dennis for pointing it out. The Barracuda link is synonymous with the fact

Re: [Clamav-users] How does Clam stand up to Commercial A/V?

2009-12-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
lists wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 08:31 -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: lists wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 19:32 -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/legal/ It's so good that TrendMicro thought it worth going to court to stop it. It is good - and thanks to Dennis

Re: [Clamav-users] How does Clam stand up to Commercial A/V?

2009-12-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Robin wrote: Jan Pieter: Thanks for balancing out the arguments! I have been trying to convince the upper end folks to accept clamav so I was looking for some good use cases compared to McAfee CommandLine Scanner, since this would be the product I would use from the corporate standard of

Re: [Clamav-users] How does Clam stand up to Commercial A/V?

2009-12-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Thomas Harold wrote: On 12/3/2009 10:32 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: I quoted viruses above because much of what is found is actually blacklisted URL's, scams, spam, etc. Very few true viruses show up anymore. That seems to be true if you're doing DNSBLs that block the dynamic address

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd Clamav yield different results

2009-11-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
Tom Shaw wrote: I'm running ClamAV on a Mac, Sun Sparc with Solaris, and Linux. I'll soon have it running on a Mac Mini Server though on that system the case issues will be corrected. Anyway - it works fine on a Mac. Actually, Dennis, it comes preinstalled on Mini Server it just located

Re: [Clamav-users] sorry this is a bit brief...

2009-11-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
steve wrote: ... one of my other servers is under attack! I've reverted to 0.95.2 - both build with ./configure --enable-milter --disable-clamuko and is all running fine again. Can anyone suggest where to start with sorting this one out?? Any config file changes I've missed, for example?

Re: [Clamav-users] 'The Need of King Angus' - a novel - 'n gettin' it published

2009-11-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
Taylor wrote: Well, I've just published my 1st novel! This would be more difficult if all our return addresses were cloaked by the list server software or otherwise hidden from non-members. dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit

Re: [Clamav-users] Best way to mirror database updates

2009-11-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dan Irwin wrote: I am wondering what is the best way to mirror database updates. Use freshclam and a custom freshclam.conf file that places the downloaded and tested files in a directory used by your mirroring software. dp ___ Help us build a

Re: [Clamav-users] All quiet on the virus front?

2009-11-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
fchan wrote: Hello, Ever since about 10-Nov-2009 1810UTC I haven't gotten any virus hits on my mail server and I'm checking if anyone seen the same thing. Before that time, I used to get about 1000 virus hits per day so are the virus writers/spammers gone away or this is the quiet before the

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Event ?

2009-11-05 Thread Dennis Peterson
David Vo wrote: Please take me off this list. The instructions to do this are in the headers of each message you've ever received from this list server but which I include here: Reply-To: ClamAV users ML clamav-users@lists.clamav.net List-Id: ClamAV users ML clamav-users.lists.clamav.net

Re: [Clamav-users] New free Signature creation tool for clamav

2009-10-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
mp5 wrote: Hi all, I just came across this SigCreate free Signature creation tool program for creating your own custom clamav signature database. The site says that it's for clamav win32 but I'd guess one could use it for Linux platform as well. Here is the link if anyone wants to check it

Re: [Clamav-users] Some Virus not detected by Clamav

2009-10-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
Steve Basford wrote: The script I use has a bit more finesse than this simple overview. I use a randomizer to prevent this process from running at the same minute past the hour Note there's a *tiny* chance if the script runs at 10.07 and then 11.03, you'll get temp block for an hour from some

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