Re: [clamav-users] [Clamav-users] Tracking false positives

2011-03-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 15:39 -0500, Alex wrote: Some time ago I posted a message requesting help tracking down a false positive, and trying to learn why it triggered. I have another one. Yes, back in Sep 2010. A lot of people using threading and keeping an archive are unlikely to ever read this

Re: [clamav-users] [Clamav-users] Tracking false positives

2011-03-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 17:22 -0500, Alex wrote: There was some discussion about this particular signature on the Sanesecurity list. Archives here: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.virus.clamav.sanesecurity Thanks everyone for the information. I thought for sure it was that I was

Re: [clamav-users] [Clamav-users] Tracking false positives

2011-03-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 17:52 -0500, Alex wrote: In-Reply-To and References headers. Set when replying. guenther -- who has given up hoping long ago, that folks running mail servers should understand mail headers I'm not sure if I should quit while I'm still behind, or if

Re: [clamav-users] Tracking false positives

2011-03-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 20:32 -0500, Alex wrote: Every email has a unique-ish Message-Id. Proper MUAs, when replying, will set the In-Reply-To header to the just replied-to message's Message-Id, and likewise add it to the list in the References header. Yes, I understand this. I just thought

Re: [Clamav-users] Reload process

2010-05-25 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 17:43 +0300, Török Edwin wrote: If a file is determined to be clean, its MD5 is added to an in-memory cache. When scanning a new file, its MD5 is computed and looked up in the cache. If found, it is considered clean. On DB reload the entire cache is cleared.

Re: [Clamav-users] Reload process

2010-05-23 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 10:21 +0300, Török Edwin wrote: else Scan it like it does now ( with everything in the DB, I assume. ) } A simpler form of this is already implemented in 0.96 :) If a file is determined to be clean, its MD5 is added to an in-memory cache. When scanning

Re: [Clamav-users] unofficial rules preferred

2009-09-14 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 17:27 +0200, Wolfgang Breyha wrote: I'm running clamd with both official and sanesecurity sigs. Now I made a test with my virus archive and recognized that clamd prefers the sanesecurity sigs. Using only ClamAV original sigs I have ~3500 virus matches. Using both

Re: [Clamav-users] OT: Re: please remove

2009-02-21 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 22:25 -0500, Gary L Burnore wrote: Laurens laur...@wildeboer.id.au wrote: I have been wanting to unsubscribe from this fucking thing for over a year can not remember log in details etc and as a result I keep getting this shit. Ok, someone's gotta say it, YOU

[Clamav-users] OT: Re: please remove

2009-02-19 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 10:50 +, Ian Eiloart wrote: http://www.clamav.net/support/ml Can we not have the list unsubscribe link in the footer, too? It's a legal Maybe start by following the link you quoted... ;) requirement in the UK to have an easy to use mechanism to unsubscribe to

Re: [Clamav-users] Submitting malware attachments or full email?

2008-12-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 10:10 +0100, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:59:01 +0100 Karsten Bräckelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, detected as Trojan.Invo-13 and Trojan.Downloader-60790. Which (again) raises the question why that variation, for what appears to be a single malware

[Clamav-users] Submitting malware attachments or full email?

2008-12-01 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Today started again what seems to establish itself as the Monday run [1] of user-frightening malware attachments, properly phrased German. The last one is exactly one week ago, and they appear to start after office hours. *sigh* Given the recent report on this list of malware submissions, where

Re: [Clamav-users] Bugzilla

2008-11-05 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 12:55 -0500, Jason Bertoch wrote: Use the advanced search tab. Or select 'All' instead of 'Open Bugs'. I suppose I should have mentioned I tried that. Even with all components, versions, statuses, resolutions, severities, priorities, hardware, and OS's checked, a

Re: [Clamav-users] Malware submission / Virustotal

2008-10-29 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 16:27 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Recent flood of (German only?) Trojan.Agent malware, partly slipping by ClamAV. So I now am submitting samples where I spot 'em... FWIW, also reported by Heise (sorry, German only). http://www.heise.de/security/news/meldung/117971

Re: [Clamav-users] Malware submission / Virustotal

2008-10-26 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 10:22 +0100, Robert Schetterer wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann schrieb: Recent flood of (German only?) Trojan.Agent malware, partly slipping by ClamAV. So I now am submitting samples where I spot 'em... By doing so, two questions came up: [ Yet unanswered sample

[Clamav-users] Malware submission / Virustotal

2008-10-25 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Recent flood of (German only?) Trojan.Agent malware, partly slipping by ClamAV. So I now am submitting samples where I spot 'em... By doing so, two questions came up: (a) After testing the sample message with Virustotal, should I even bother submitting it from clamav.net, too? If memory

Re: [Clamav-users] Scan stops at first virus sig

2008-04-10 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 13:58 +0100, Greg Smith wrote: I am trying to scan files so that clam scans the entire file for all viruses ^ Smells like mbox. and doesnt stop at the first one it finds? Is this possible? In that case, formail is your friend. If you're not

Re: [Clamav-users] help-about regular expressions in signatures-From: T?r?k Edwin

2008-01-27 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 16:44 -0500, xue wen wrote: The signature I have made up is like this: Worm.Yawen (Clam)=61*7c62 where 617c62 means a|b. Once I add the wildcard into this signature, there will be an error, no matter I put it into a .db or .ndb file. Is there something wrong of the

Re: [Clamav-users] 10. Re: help-about regular expressions in signatures (Kris Deugau)

2008-01-27 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 17:03 -0500, xue wen wrote: I just want to learn the format of ClamAV's signature. So I tried to build a signature containing a wildcard by myself. The example I used is as follows: I have made up a signature of: Worm.Yawen (Clam)=61*7c62 where 617c62 means a|b. I

Re: [Clamav-users] Creating your own Signatures: Bound Offset

2008-01-27 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 10:29 +0100, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:20:26 +0100 Karsten Bräckelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cat test.ndb local.test:4:0:{-4096}74657374 It won't work because there's no 'sub-signature' preceding the range wildcard. You can use a floating

Re: [Clamav-users] Creating your own Signatures: Bound Offset

2008-01-25 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 18:41 -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 17:54 -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: The sigs are full of unbound RE's. That's why scanning mbox mail files is pointless. Yes, I know. I contributed that fact to the thread

Re: [Clamav-users] Creating your own Signatures: Bound Offset

2008-01-25 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 17:54 -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: The main purpose was, to keep ClamAV from scanning the entire, possibly large file (err, mail). And maybe even speed it up. It's good practice to bound your REs or wildcards anyway. I wonder

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav gcc dependendencies ...

2007-12-17 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Please resist the urge to top-post. On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 15:52 -0800, fchan wrote: Hello, I'm on a MacBookPro running 10.4.11 with xcode 2.5 and I tried your suggestion export CC=gcc-3.4 and I got this error: The advice was rather specific to Debian. And actually started by installing GCC

[Clamav-users] Signature precedence

2007-10-22 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
I seem to recall I have come across this before, but I just can't find it. Maybe someone knows off-hand. :) When using additional, third party signatures, is there any particular order in the signatures? If both, the official as well as the third party sigs match, which one is being reported?

Re: [Clamav-users] Signature precedence

2007-10-22 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 14:43 -0500, Noel Jones wrote: At 12:37 PM 10/22/2007, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: When using additional, third party signatures, is there any particular order in the signatures? No particular order. If both, the official as well as the third party sigs match, which

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

2007-10-09 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 16:25 -0300, Joao S Veiga wrote: Of course. However, I got the impression that neither of the recent reporters does this additional step. Also, this gets even more annoying (and maybe impossible) when dealing with PST files (which one of the OPs does). Hi, if one

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

2007-10-08 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
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, the Changelog say so

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

2007-10-08 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 09:15 -0700, Dennis Peterson 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, the Changelog say so

[Clamav-users] RFC: Recognize mbox format (was: Re: Getting line numbers)

2007-10-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
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 messages before delivering

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-02 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
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 earlier. :) Caveat: I have

Re: [Clamav-users] signature names

2007-09-12 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 07:28 -0700, John Rudd wrote: (to the developers, not in answer to Burnie) See, the current name scheme needs to be fixed. And no one responded at all to my proposed scheme from a month or two ago. Coincidentally, my very first question on this list years ago was

Re: [Clamav-users] As soon as Sourcefire starts charging for viru s updates,

2007-08-28 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:26 -0500, Bryan Johns wrote: On 8/28/07, Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not worried about ClamAV being acquired. At the moment, everyone is saying that there are no plans to change anything. As long as that remains the case, the only difference is that

Re: [Clamav-users] I need help

2007-08-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 13:47 -0400, Pedro Luis Domínguez Viqueira wrote: My fresclam say ERROR: Can't get information about db.us1.clamav.net: Host not found Check your configuration. Where does that host name come from? There is no surprise here, because -- as freshclam correctly told you --