Re: [Clamav-users] What's this? I can't believe it!

2008-01-20 Thread Dennis Peterson
Sarocet wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: Nobody has actually tested the files to see if they are Windows executables that I've seen. It is entirely possible they could be Linux executables. File extensions don't mean much on a Linux system but it seems from this thread a great way to pass

Re: [Clamav-users] How to increase freshclam's log file limit

2008-01-20 Thread Dennis Peterson
James Brown wrote: My freshclam.log only shows entries like: Log size = 11242653, max = 1048576 LOGGING DISABLED (Maximal log file size exceeded). How can I increase the max log file size? The current build of ClamAV has this in the example freshclam.conf file: # Maximum size of the log

Re: [Clamav-users] How to increase freshclam's log file limit

2008-01-20 Thread Dennis Peterson
James Brown wrote: Added the above text, but with LogFileMaxSize 0, (without the '#' of course!). ran /usr/local/bin/freshclam still got a LOGGING DISABLED error in freshclam.log Thanks Dennis Bill, Did you stop and restart freshclam (assuming you run it as a daemon)? What

Re: [Clamav-users] JS.Downloader-37 what is this

2008-01-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
Robert Schetterer wrote: aCaB schrieb: Robert Schetterer wrote: Hi all, where can i find a description to JS.Downloader-37 some customer programmer says this is not really a virus or a security Problem if it so is there a way to make clamscan ignore such type of stuff Report the FP here.

Re: [Clamav-users] EMLINK error in Solaris 10 .. in this case i DoS myself

2008-01-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
Daniel Garcia Bruno wrote: Hi everybody, First of all thank's a million for the work of the ClamAV team! I've been using it for few years now ... but is the first time I see this problem after a Linux - Solaris 10 mail servers migration : SunOS dl380 5.10 Generic_127112-06 i86pc i386

Re: [Clamav-users] Failure to detect first time

2008-01-08 Thread Dennis Peterson
Phil Chambers wrote: How do I go about diagnosing this? Do you have log information showing that both messages followed the same path to your AV tool, beginning at port 25 of your inbound MTA? dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide:

Re: [Clamav-users] Tomasz, ...

2008-01-07 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: Gregory Carter wrote: I totally agree, but I think after you pointed out 4(a), all the other issues cited simply makes further discussion pedantic. Well, I'd like to add a remark. The discussion about all these issues isn't pedantic, as long as...

Re: [Clamav-users] Failure to detect first time

2008-01-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Phil Chambers wrote: I was not aware that there was any way to get clamd to do anything other than check the content of messages. The Sanesecurity signatures are just a set of phishing and scam signatures for ClamAV which are used in addition to the standard ClamAV ones. Given that

Re: [Clamav-users] Private /tmp (was Re: Clam bugs/vulns...)

2008-01-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Then this may be something that could use some explanation. Exactly what temp dir setting are you referring to and why should it be changed? Many (but not all) UNIX programs respect an environment variable called TMPDIR that specifies a

Re: [Clamav-users] Clam bugs/vulns (was Re: Tomasz, you're an id iot, and you don't even know it)

2008-01-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Rob MacGregor wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 3:09 PM, Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then this may be something that could use some explanation. Exactly what temp dir setting are you referring to and why should it be changed? If the environment variable TMPDIR is defined then well behaved

Re: [Clamav-users] sigtool and phishing

2008-01-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
FM wrote: hello, I have lots of false positive with clamav phishing detection. What is the correct way to remove these rules using sigtool? From a recent post: You can disable the heuristics-based phish checks without disabling the signature-based checks. Both the official clamav and

Re: [Clamav-users] Clam bugs/vulns (was Re: Tomasz, you're an id iot, and you don't even know it)

2008-01-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Rob MacGregor wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 4:09 PM, Dennis Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The success of this requires a bit of serendipity as well. If for reasons of convenience the new TMPDIR is globally writeable then nothing has been accomplished which is why a global TMPDIR declaration

Re: [Clamav-users] Clam bugs/vulns (was Re: Tomasz, you're an idiot, and you don't even know it)

2008-01-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: I think we all need to calm down. Vulnerability #1: Yes, cli_gentemp has a theoretical race condition. Is it theoretically exploitable? Sure. Is it *likely* to be exploited in the real world? No. You have to guess 128 bits of mildly-good random data. That's quite

Re: [Clamav-users] Clam bugs/vulns (was Re: Tomasz, you're an idiot, and you don't even know it)

2008-01-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: Does any admin actually run this stuff without setting the temp directory ahead of time? I bet the vast majority do. I don't include Linux babies in that... This problem is as old as Unix. Indeed. It is an operator issue. No, I

Re: [Clamav-users] Email viruses almost non-existent?

2007-12-31 Thread Dennis Peterson
Paul Kosinski wrote: In reply to various responses: We haven't reconfigured our local or domain Postfix mail servers recently to do graylisting etc., but in April we moved from a shared Web host to a dedicated computer for our domain (iment.com). At that time, we installed a what was

Re: [Clamav-users] out of date but up to date???

2007-12-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
john wrote: ha clamav-milter -V ClamAV version 0.88.7, clamav-milter version 0.88.7 however when I try to configure with --enable-milter on the new version 0.92 I get: configure: error: Cannot find libmilter any idea where I can find it? In the libmilter package for your distribution?

Re: [Clamav-users] Problème FOUND

2007-12-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
JF wrote: Est-ce que quelqu'un ou quelques personne pourrait me dire de quoi il s'agit, et des étapes à faire pour les enlever si possibilité avec les commandes pour que j'puisse pas trop galéré à faire n'importe quoi Bonjour JF Les fichiers sont des fichiers de test. Ils doivent être

Re: [Clamav-users] Email viruses almost non-existent?

2007-12-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
Paul Kosinski wrote: In December 2006, we were running ClamAV 0.88.7, and there were still a fair number of real viruses being detected in inbound email. Now running 0.91.2 and 0.92, there seem to be only phishing attempts, and not even very many of them. In fact it seems that our log file

Re: [Clamav-users] Source code for test/clam.exe?

2007-12-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
Cort, Tom wrote: Hello, clamav comes with a sample virus (ClamAV-Test-File) for testing purposes. It's located in the clamav source tarball in the 'test' directory and named 'clam.exe'. I'd like to distribute it with a free software program I maintain, but I can't find the corresponding

Re: [Clamav-users] How to find infected file

2007-12-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Baz wrote: Hello, I installed ClamAV and ran a scan on my entire system returning a report of one infected file. How do I find this file? I Did you look in your log file? dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit

Re: [Clamav-users] How to find infected file

2007-12-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Baz wrote: And where exactly is it? Do Linux developers intentionally make this shit difficult and still bitch about Windows/Norton's dominance? Please crush with all your being any desire to top post. Apparently you've not read anything yet so a good place to start is the ClamAV Wiki. The

Re: [Clamav-users] How to find infected file

2007-12-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Baz wrote: Or this # clamscan -r / Dave, keep that smug attitude going. It only helps M$. Thank God I still have XP on another partition. Despite the fact that you are a top posting whining asshat who has no sense of personal responsibility, it's Christmas so I'm not going to tell you

Re: [Clamav-users] Documentation patch.

2007-12-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
Andrew McGlashan wrote: Gerard wrote: I believe that it is worth mentioning, that the receiver of said messages must insure that they do not engage in the practice referred to as backscatter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter#Backscatter_of_email_spam An improperly configured

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Andrew McGlashan wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: You are running a very underpowered system for a virus scanner. That is the real shame. Memory is cheap even in third world nations - there is no reason an on-demand system like a virus scanner should be shackled with 256 meg of memory. So

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Andrew McGlashan wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: I'd be real tempted to farm out this function to a capable server via tcp/ip connections. Okay thanks, is there any guides to farm out such connections to help? I use Sendmail and a milter, J-Chkmail which makes this trivial. It all depends

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Henrik Krohns wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:55:09PM -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: You are running a very underpowered system for a virus scanner. That is the real shame. Memory is cheap even in third world nations - there is no reason

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Henrik Krohns wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:19:45PM -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: The messages/hour is not a parameter one typically controls. Systems I build are build to handle estimated worst case loads. Maybe you can't control it, but if the load is predictable, what's your point

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Henrik Krohns wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:53:54PM -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: Henrik Krohns wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:19:45PM -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: The messages/hour is not a parameter one typically controls. Systems I build are build to handle estimated worst case

Re: [Clamav-users] How to remove an infected file.

2007-12-10 Thread Dennis Peterson
Unai Rodriguez wrote: Dear all, Let's imagine that while scanning the system ClamAV finds an infected file: file: virus FOUND What is the best way to remove it? 1) clamscan --remove file NOTE.- What if the files is *BIG*? Do I have to scan it again to remove it? -

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-10 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jeffrey Rice wrote: Hello, Is there any way to reduce/control the memory use of clamd? I'm running a co-hosted VPS, so memory is at a premium. I have 256 Mb of RAM on the machine, and clamd is taking 95Mb of virtual, and has a 65Mb resident footprint! That seems excessive, to say the

Re: [Clamav-users] I having problem about the installation.

2007-12-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dzek wrote: Dear alll, Anybody can help me on this, vhen i go to /var/lib/clamav/daily.inc/ there is no file there. how do i copy one there. Thanks. You should have a tool that came with your clamav suite. Find and run clamconf and post the results here. Your configuration broken. dp

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance issues

2007-11-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Sheikji Nazirudeen wrote: Hello: I am in the process of scanning HP and Sun servers. I am running into issues wherein, it takes a long time for the scan to complete. Is there any way apart from exculding certain file extensions to increase the speed. I would be much interested in a software

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

2007-11-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
Steve Wray wrote: Christoph Cordes wrote: 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

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV Vulnerability

2007-11-20 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: Tomasz Kojm wrote: This is getting boring! I'm sorry you find it so. I actually find this to be exciting reading: http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?o=0l=30c=12op=display_listvendor=Clam%20Anti-Virusversion=title=CVE= Please, Clam developers, before

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

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: Ian Eiloart wrote: Hold on here. Are you stating that you expect users to actually RTFM? I think you are expecting way too much. No, it's not. Not when the users are professional IT people. :-) I don't think we hang around the same Professional IT people The

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav best practices: VMware Server

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
G.W. Haywood wrote: Hi there, Of course we aren't considering here the case where you might be looking, say, for vulnerable libraries compiled statically into random executables. Debian has some patterns for this that are instructional - they are used for locating static versions of

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav best practices: VMware Server

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Ian G Batten wrote: On 18 Nov 07, at 0614, Dennis Peterson wrote: Have you considered scannning only files that have changed (md5sum difference, for example) since the last time they were scanned? There's no need to scan a file endlessly - only if it has changed since the previous scan

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

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: That which you can't test you are obliged to understand. If you can't understand a thing because of time constraints, complexity, or inadequate documentation, then you turn it off until circumstances change. You finally kinda did that. Yes

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

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: They didn't turn it on and they didn't install it. They provided a sample config that is incapable of running and which requires administrative attention in order to use. What finally ends up running on the system is your job and mine to manage

Re: [Clamav-users] I need to refute a 'security expert'

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Derick Centeno wrote: Hi Jim: For OS X the clamav engine works with the interface provided by clamXav. You can take a look at that page here: http://www.clamxav.com/ Whenever I'm in OS X, I never fail to be amazed at all the windows virii, trojans and God knows what attempting to

Re: [Clamav-users] I need to refute a 'security expert'

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Gerard wrote: On November 19, 2007 at 11:43AM Dennis Peterson wrote: Before the widespread use of Fusion and Parallels in the Mac this wasn't too much of a problem. Virtual machines have now made it more important to keep the OS X file system clean, now. It's just a matter of time

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav best practices: VMware Server

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Ian G Batten wrote: On 19 Nov 07, at 1228, G.W. Haywood wrote: Hi there, On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 Ian G Batten wrote: On 18 Nov 07, at 0614, Dennis Peterson wrote: Have you considered scannning only files that have changed (md5sum difference, for example) since the last time they were scanned

Re: [Clamav-users] Unknown Signature

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Derick Centeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm sure that you're aware that you can also switch that function off by merely commenting out those lines. My 0.91.2 sample clamd.conf file says: # With this option enabled ClamAV will try to detect phishing attempts by

Re: [Clamav-users] Unknown Signature

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Noel Jones wrote: To disable these heuristics based signatures in clamd/clamdscan, set PhishingScanURLs no in clamd.conf and then stop/start clamd. Derick Centeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm sure that you're aware that you can also switch that

Re: [Clamav-users] I need to refute a 'security expert'

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Derick Centeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Which is why my primary system is not OS X, but rather Yellow Dog Linux (YDL)! This highlights the big gripe I have with Linux. You can't even talk about it without immediately indicating which vendor's Linux. It is the

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav best practices: VMware Server

2007-11-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
Unai Rodriguez wrote: Dear All, We are managing a set of servers running Debian plus VMware Server (free version). All of them are pretty busy since each of them run several VMware Virtual Servers. I am trying to come up with a way (aka Best Practice) of having all these machines

Re: [Clamav-users] I need to refute a 'security expert'

2007-11-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all. We've had some consultant make the spurious claim that Clam AV only scans for 'windows viruses' and is really only useful for 'scanning email'. Despite the fact that I know this to be patently false, is there documentation out there I can slap him with

Re: [Clamav-users] Accurate subjects (was Re: PhishingScanURLs is dreadfully slow/CPU-intensive)

2007-11-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Monday November 12, 2007 at 04:22:47 (PM) David F. Skoll wrote: Really? All posters on this thread who gave an opinion wanted PhishingScanURLs off by default. I invite users who want PhishingScanURLs to be on by default to come forward; I'll happily go with the

Re: [Clamav-users] PhishingScanURLs is dreadfully slow/CPU-intensive

2007-10-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
John Rudd wrote: John Rudd wrote: I can produce 2 examples of messages that cause the problem, in RFC822 format, for anyone who wants to experiment with them. I decided I'd just go ahead and make them available: http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/ClamAV/318642.mbox

Re: [Clamav-users] PhishingScanURLs is dreadfully slow/CPU-intensive

2007-10-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: Hello, A client of ours had a bunch of machines whose CPUs were maxed out at 100% because of clam. Changing PhishingScanURLs to no from the default yes dropped the load average from 70+ to about 3, and the CPU usage from 100% to under 50%. This is under Linux, so

Re: [Clamav-users] PhishingScanURLs is dreadfully slow/CPU-intensive

2007-10-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
Joe Clements wrote: For what it is worth, Linux will only forge ahead in the market by improvements in 2 areas. One of them is security. I would like to see 1 security suite which has the capability to deal with ALL threats. Windows security has to have an anti virus, anti trojan, adware

Re: [Clamav-users] PhishingScanURLs is dreadfully slow/CPU-intensive

2007-10-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
Steve Holdoway wrote: I don't see where Linux is unique in this regard. I also don't see why the success of Linux is particularly important vs BSD, Solaris, Windows, etc. But I suppose that discussion is for another forum. I think the OP may beconsidering linux as a desktop.

Re: [Clamav-users] Vote for ClamAV as the best anti-malware solut ion

2007-10-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bowie Bailey wrote: I found a privacy policy here: http://www.scmagazineus.com/PrivacyPolicy/ but I can't quite figure out what it is trying to say. Bowie It says clearly they will provide, possibly for a fee, possibly not, all your information to their contacts list. In addition, if

Re: [Clamav-users] Vote for ClamAV as the best anti-malware solut ion

2007-10-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dave Warren wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dennis Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Why is this called a privacy statement rather than an invasion of privacy statement? Just because their statement is you have no privacy doesn't change that fact that it's a privacy

Re: [Clamav-users] Recent viruses

2007-10-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Gomes, Rich wrote: I received some emails yesterday matching the following: Infected messages: Email.Ecard-28: 2 Message(s) Email.Phishing.RB-1804: 2 Message(s) Email.Phishing.RB-1806: 2 Message(s) I think these are ClamAV-specific names, how can I find out more detailed

Re: [Clamav-users] Recent viruses

2007-10-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Gomes, Rich wrote: Dennis, Thanks for the reply. I understand all of what you are saying, having worked as a sysadmin for many years now. My issue is that even with most vendors using different naming conventions, they are usually cross-reference in any technical info that is out there. I

Re: [Clamav-users] Vote for ClamAV as the best anti-malware solution

2007-10-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dean Brunson wrote: I went there to cast a vote, too. I couldn't find any statement of how they would use my e-mail address. I closed the window without voting. Ditto - a data harvesting page if ever I've seen one. I think the least useful piece of info you can leave on that page is your

Re: [Clamav-users] Hacktool.PCGI false positive? What to do?

2007-10-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jonathan Kamens wrote: Greetings, Recently, ClamAV version 0.90.2 with main.cvd version 44 and daily.cvd version 4540 reported that an EXE on one of our servers was infected with Hacktool.PCGI. This EXE came from a pretty reputable source, and when I scanned the same file with Symantec

Re: [Clamav-users] eicar Identified But Not Moved

2007-10-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
Sean McGlynn wrote: Hello, I am testing clamscan, and running the following command: clamscan -r --move=/var/log/clam/infected -l /var/log/clam/dailyclamscanSPM /home/justlgn/test/eicar.com The results indicate can't open file, and that no infected files were found. The clam log

Re: [Clamav-users] eicar Identified But Not Moved

2007-10-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
Sean McGlynn wrote: Dennis, Thank you for taking the time to reply. Yes, I am running the scan as root. Sean Is the home directory mounted? Dennis ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net

Re: [Clamav-users] eicar Identified But Not Moved

2007-10-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dennis Peterson wrote: Sean McGlynn wrote: Dennis, Thank you for taking the time to reply. Yes, I am running the scan as root. Sean Is the home directory mounted? Should have said NFS mounted. dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV

Re: [Clamav-users] eicar Identified But Not Moved

2007-10-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
Sean McGlynn wrote: The directory I am trying to scan is mounted, as is the directory to where I want the infected files moved, if I am understanding your question. Thanks again. User root is frequently (and correctly) prohibited from deleting files from NFS mounted sources. There are

Re: [Clamav-users] eicar Identified But Not Moved

2007-10-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
Sean McGlynn wrote: Just to be certain (It's not my first day with Linux, but I'm still relatively new to it), you mean NFS as in Network File System, as in mounting a remote file system on the Linux server, correct? If correct, then no, NFS is not involved. Both the directory being

Re: [Clamav-users] Does clamav protect against rootkits?

2007-10-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
Rob MacGregor wrote: On 10/14/07, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the answers, does anyone know this for sure? Quoting the ClamAV home page: ...designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. So no, it's not designed to detect rootkits. I don't think it's

Re: [Clamav-users] Some question on freshclam

2007-10-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
Pieter wrote: Hi, I saw indeed that this info is shown upon running freshclam. However I do not want to trigger an update to the servers. I only want this info. Just running freshclam will add more load to your pattern file servers which is not needed in this case. Hence the request ...

Re: [Clamav-users] Some question on freshclam

2007-10-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
Pieter wrote: Hi Dennis, Thanks. For this reply. Is it also possible to view the versions of the local databases ? So not the version of those available at the mirrors? (without grepping over the freshclam logfiles). Kind regards Pieter If you have a daily.cvd file: sigtool

Re: [Clamav-users] RFC: Recognize mbox format

2007-10-08 Thread Dennis Peterson
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:31 -0500, René Berber wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Another downside of this approach, together with ClamAV treating mbox format files as text/plain is, that only the first hit will be reported. That was made to improve performance,

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-05 Thread Dennis Peterson
John W. Baxter wrote: On 10/3/07 10:45 AM, Dennis Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 10:24 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: 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

Re: [Clamav-users] Sanesecurity ndb add-on question.

2007-10-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Kapp wrote: Probably missing something obvious. Hope someone can kick me in the right direction. using postfix/amavisd-new/spamassassin/clamd Yesterday I upgraded to the latest amavisd-new and spamassassin. Prior to the upgrade when clamd scanned the Eicar test and the scam-sig-test

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Joao S Veiga wrote: Hi, I was getting tons of these false positives (just reportedsubmitted a sample). you can delete the line: Email.FreeGame:4:*:75626a6563743a{-30}(67|47)616d65*687474703a2f2f(31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39) from /var/lib/clamav/daily.inc/daily.ndb and it will go

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Joao S Veiga wrote: Hi John, think long and hard about the combination of payments and entities which are reduced to using numeric IPs in URLs. I suspect my business goes elsewhere. Agreed :-), but the problem is (and what has caused most of my problems) that if you have an email with

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: Joao S Veiga wrote: Hi John, think long and hard about the combination of payments and entities which are reduced to using numeric IPs in URLs. I suspect my business goes elsewhere. Agreed :-), but the problem is (and what has caused most

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 10:24 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: 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. Rather easy I guess, given your analysis of the RE

Re: [Clamav-users] RFC: Recognize mbox format

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:45 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Developers, read on. :) Somewhat simplified, the signature reads Subject with the string game and an IP style http link. Scanning maildirs as well as scanning individual

Re: [Clamav-users] RFC: Recognize mbox format

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:47:02 +0200 Karsten Bräckelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:45 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Developers, read on. :) Somewhat simplified, the signature reads Subject with the string game and an IP

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
Nigel Horne wrote: Run clamscan --debug mbox-format-file and look for the message Deal with message number x -Nigel I have to say, that is about the worst way I've seen yet to nail down a positive as there is a lot of debris to wade through, and there's no indication in the output that a

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
Christoph Cordes wrote: 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. I don't see where

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
Micah wrote: No and yes. But you can write a small script, perhaps even a long command, to do just that. - -- René Berber Sorry if I'm a bit thick...but how? How can I get ClamScan to tell me what line (for a text file) matched a signature? Or How can I get ClamScan to tell me

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
Micah wrote: There are scripts on line you can download that will split your single file into individual files - each a complete message. These you scan one at a time. After you've found and dealt with the infected message(s) you reassemble the individual files into a single file again.

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
Micah wrote: http://www.clamav.org/support/faq/ (the 8th item in Miscellaneous) says: The entire process takes less than a minute here on a file of around 4g in size. dp Okay, so I used mb2md to convert the mbox to 1692 files and then ran the scanner. Check this out: ---

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

2007-10-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
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 Email.Foolball-2 virus. If we send the emails with the same URL in

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

2007-10-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
Chinh Nguyen Tam wrote: 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 Email.Foolball-2 virus. If we

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah wrote: Is there any way I can disable the check for Email.FreeGame? Is there any reason to suspect this file will ever contain a viable virus? If not then don't bother scanning it. Sorry I don't have an answer for your question. dp

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah wrote: Yes, I'm periodically doing scans of the full drive. I could just skip the mysql directory, but that seems pretty bad security practice. Why does it seem that way to you ? It appears clamav just does a substring match on the exclude, so it would be easy to

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jeff Thurston wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:clamav-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Adams Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:48 AM To: 'ClamAV users ML' Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage Once upon a time, Jeff Thurston

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jeff Thurston wrote: Please forgive my ignorance, I don't use strace very much... I assume it is as simple as waiting for the process to get stuck at 100% again, then 'strace -p clamd.pid` and look for... what should I look for? Yes, pretty much it. You should probably also use the -f

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dennis Peterson wrote: Jeff Thurston wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:clamav-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Adams Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:48 AM To: 'ClamAV users ML' Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage Once

Re: [Clamav-users] strace and threads (was Re: clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage)

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: Yes, pretty much it. You should probably also use the -f (follow) switch to see what the kids are doing, too. Does strace work well with POSIX threads on Linux? My impression was not, but maybe my information is out of date. I'm a Solaris guy

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote the following on 9/25/2007 9:45 PM -0800: Also - if you do all your tests up front and discover you'll need to run multiple instances of perl you may find you can collect multiple code segments into a single execution of Perl and get everything in one

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: Bill Landry wrote: After a discussion on the clamav-users list yesterday of an issue a couple of script users were experiencing with write access to the temporary directory, I made a change to the script to overcome this issue. There are also a couple of other script

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jan-Pieter Cornet wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:17:35PM -0700, Bill Landry wrote: Epoch time: perl -e 'print time() . \n;' Golfed: perl -le print+time You can even leave the -l switch if used in ``, because the trailing newline doesn't matter there. It wouldn't be Perl if there

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jan-Pieter Cornet wrote: So, TIMTOTDI squared (look ma', no perl!). This does the same as date +%s too: echo|awk '{print systime()}' But not in Solaris which is where the OP's original hack was born. You need gawk: echo|gawk '{print systime()}' My favorite absurd method in

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: Okay, let's try this again. A new update has been posted that will first try date +%s and if that fails, then it will automatically fall back to a perl option. I didn't update the version number, just the version info: You can rip out a lot of code (well, some code) if

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Kyle Lanclos wrote: Dennis wrote: You can rip out a lot of code (well, some code) if you just use the Perl date method by default and forget the date +%s stuff entirely. Your mileage may vary. $ time perl -le print+time real0m0.002s $ time date +%s real0m0.001s (Those

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote the following on 9/25/2007 8:06 PM -0800: Bill Landry wrote: Okay, let's try this again. A new update has been posted that will first try date +%s and if that fails, then it will automatically fall back to a perl option. I didn't update

Re: [Clamav-users] Logging to /var/spool/mail/root

2007-09-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
McGlynn, Sean (DOB) wrote: Hello, The /var/spool/mail/root log files on our servers are logging every file that clamav scans, causing the files to become huge. I don't see what in our clamd.conf configuration files would be causing this. Our configuration file follows - any help would be

Re: [Clamav-users] Logging to /var/spool/mail/root

2007-09-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dennis Peterson wrote: McGlynn, Sean (DOB) wrote: Hello, The /var/spool/mail/root log files on our servers are logging every file that clamav scans, causing the files to become huge. I don't see what in our clamd.conf configuration files would be causing this. Our configuration file

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd problem

2007-09-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Matthias Schmidt wrote: Hello, I have a little problem with clamd: the process terminates, because: Socket file /tmp/clamd is in use by another process. now I have no glue, which other process could use the socket file from clamd. I set the permissions to 777 on the end, but didn't help.

Re: [Clamav-users] Default clamscan tmp dir custom uid/gid set during configure

2007-09-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: Thus my original questions, where is the default temporary director used by clamscan, and how does one determine what uid/gid clamav was possibly configured to use after-the-fact? Also, does anyone have any other suggestions on possible ways to overcome this issue by some

Re: [Clamav-users] Default clamscan tmp dir custom uid/gid set during configure

2007-09-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: Thoughts anyone...? I would also still like to know if there is a way to determine the uid/gid set during ./configure after clamav has been installed at the original build directory deleted. Thanks, Bill Unless you are running clamscan as root the owner will be

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