Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV 0.103.2 security patch release

2021-04-10 Thread Per Jessen
G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote: > Hi there, > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2021, Per Jessen wrote: >> G.W. Haywood wrote: >>> On Sat, 10 Apr 2021, Per Jessen wrote: >>> >>>> When I built $SUBJ just now, I see >>>> >>>> libclammspack

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV 0.103.2 security patch release

2021-04-10 Thread Per Jessen
Per Jessen wrote: > >> If this is after install, exactly how did you build it? > > I don't normally do a "make install", I copy the libraries to the > destination servers directly. I only need the libraries. Having just built and installed on another machine, this

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV 0.103.2 security patch release

2021-04-10 Thread Per Jessen
G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2021, Per Jessen wrote: > >> When I built $SUBJ just now, I see >> >> libclammspack.so.0 >> => >> /home/per/workspace/clamav-0.103.2/libclamav/.libs/libclammspack.so.0 >> >> ie. with

Re: [clamav-users] Services Difference & Memory Utilization

2020-09-14 Thread Per Jessen
sibly* be able to run clamd on a system with > only 2G of RAM It _can_ be done, using cgroups to restrict the amount of memory used, but it'll be doing a bit of swapping. For email processing, we run clamd on virtual machines with slightly less than 3Gb memory, of which clam

Re: [clamav-users] unable to build with --enable-libclamav-only

2020-02-25 Thread Per Jessen
Michael Orlitzky via clamav-users wrote: > On 2/24/20 5:28 AM, Per Jessen wrote: >> I've just stumbled on this new config >> option - "--enable-libclamav-only ". However, I still get complaints >> about libcurl (for freshclam and clamdsubmit) ? >> >

[clamav-users] unable to build with --enable-libclamav-only

2020-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
andir=/usr/share/man I must be missing something? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.5°C) ___ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://

Re: [clamav-users] file not recognised by clamav, but by many others?

2018-03-20 Thread Per Jessen
I was just curious that such a relatively old virus is not identified by ClamAV. (nor by Sanesec signatures for that matter). -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.1°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. ___ clamav-users mailing

[clamav-users] file not recognised by clamav, but by many others?

2018-03-20 Thread Per Jessen
system), but it is recognised by many others. https://files.jessen.ch/materials-20161511_121132836553-doc.exe -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-0.2°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. ___ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users

Re: [clamav-users] Clam in a very low memory environment?

2014-03-12 Thread Per Jessen
memory configuration? Is it do-able? Sure, my test-system nodes only have about 400M RAM. I use my own clam daemon, but the functionality is the same. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (5.6°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. ___ Help

Re: [clamav-users] How can I have clamd reject items that can't be scanned?

2011-11-09 Thread Per Jessen
able to scan, it's about not wanting to scan. Regardless, clamav doesn't reject or approve mails, that's for your MTA to do. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support

Re: [clamav-users] How can I have clamd reject items that can't be scanned?

2011-11-09 Thread Per Jessen
Rob Sterenborg (lists) wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 10:31 +0100, Per Jessen wrote: Peter Bradeen wrote: I see that there are ways to limit the level of archive that will be scanned as well as the size of the entities to be scanned. Is there a way for CLAMAV to then flag them

Re: [clamav-users] How can I have clamd reject items that can't be scanned?

2011-11-09 Thread Per Jessen
Simon Hobson wrote: Per Jessen wrote: It's not about not being able to scan, it's about not wanting to scan. Regardless, clamav doesn't reject or approve mails, that's for your MTA to do. If you use ClamAV as milter, it's up to ClamAV to tell the MTA what to do so I guess there's

[Clamav-users] lastest daily.cvd (10938) might cause an issue for clamd users who have not upgraded to libclamav 0.96

2010-05-07 Thread Per Jessen
, but I'm posting this just in case. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] lastest daily.cvd (10938) might cause an issue for clamd users who have not upgraded to libclamav 0.96

2010-05-07 Thread Per Jessen
Per Jessen wrote: I'm running my own custom clamav daemon, and just now I ran into an issue when reloading the latest daily.cvd. cl_load() seems to be looking for a file named 'daily.ldb' - it isn't found, which causes a segfault. I don't yet know if this is purely my issue or if it might

Re: [Clamav-users] Latest daily.cld update causes segfault

2010-05-07 Thread Per Jessen
Toby Bryans wrote: Thanks Luca, I obviously should have checked there in retrospect! It was posted 8 minutes after your posting, so checking there wouldn't have done you any good :-) /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV

Re: [Clamav-users] Latest daily.cld update causes segfault

2010-05-07 Thread Per Jessen
Toby Bryans wrote: On 7 May 2010 12:28, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: Toby Bryans wrote: Thanks Luca, I obviously should have checked there in retrospect! It was posted 8 minutes after your posting, so checking there wouldn't have done you any good :-) :) I can confirm

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV Memory Usage

2009-12-02 Thread Per Jessen
about 70MB. So, even assuming this is kept in memory at all times, where does the other 120MB come from? Maybe when the database is reloaded? I don't know clamd that well, but I suspect it'll probably have two copies of the database in core during reload. /Per Jessen, Zürich

[Clamav-users] third party signatures are given preference ?

2009-10-22 Thread Per Jessen
is Email.Trojan.GZC aka Sanesecurity.Malware.8825. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam - how to hard-code to specific IP?

2009-09-02 Thread Per Jessen
to whereever you want. Or you just update /etc/freshclam.conf to point to only only mirror. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

[Clamav-users] Suggestion - make the source package available without the main.cvd database

2009-06-18 Thread Per Jessen
Any chance of making the source package available without the current cvd databases? The current package is 24Mb, without the CVD it's only 3Mb. Just a suggestion, but it might just save some bandwidth. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build

[Clamav-users] What's the benefit of having libiconv installed?

2008-09-30 Thread Per Jessen
of it is in relation to clamav? It's obviously optional, and clamav sems to do quite well without it. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

[Clamav-users] freshclam logfile size

2008-03-14 Thread Per Jessen
Am I the first person to suggest the default max logsize should be 0 instead of 1M (or some other arbitrary value) ? /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav

[Clamav-users] freshclam complains about /etc/clamd.conf ?

2008-01-15 Thread Per Jessen
reason why freshclam should complain about /etc/clamd.conf ? /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam complains about /etc/clamd.conf ?

2008-01-15 Thread Per Jessen
. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam complains about /etc/clamd.conf ?

2008-01-15 Thread Per Jessen
Per Jessen wrote: Wait - I didn't ask how to fix the problem. I'm more interested to know why freshclam complains about this _unused_ config-file when it has never done so before. Please ignore - problem found and solved. /Per Jessen, Zürich

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

2007-12-18 Thread Per Jessen
is one of very few exceptions. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

[Clamav-users] clamav gcc dependendencies ...

2007-12-17 Thread Per Jessen
of fixing this gcc problem in the clamav source? /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Problem with big mails

2007-03-29 Thread Per Jessen
that vary in size from 20MB to 60 MB. Virus-scanning anything bigger than 1-2Mb makes little sense. ANything as big as 20Mb, I would just skip without further consideration. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http

[Clamav-users] scriptedupdates ignored if daily.inc exists

2007-03-08 Thread Per Jessen
left the daily.inc directory. When I removed it, freshclam retrieved the daily cvd on the next attempt. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon

2006-12-29 Thread Per Jessen
, and I do not expect any either. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update email before actual update available?]

2006-12-29 Thread Per Jessen
mainframe sysprog, I don't monitor any of my daemon processes. (apart from *some* status-monitoring via SNMP). /Per Jessen, Zürich PS: even if you're an old school Unix admin, quoting only the relevant bits in your reply is still considered good netiquette

Re: [Clamav-users] DB Update email before actual update available?

2006-12-29 Thread Per Jessen
you depend 100% on it never failing? For one thing, freshclam has never died nor exploded from a memory leak, nor is it a critical process. If freshclam fails to do an update within 15mins after we've received the clamav email-notification, a warning is raised. /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: DB Update email before actual update available?

2006-12-29 Thread Per Jessen
/machine temperature as they are critical operating factors that must be maintained within certain boundaries. Anyway, this is way, way off-topic here - my apologies for keeping it going. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update

2006-12-29 Thread Per Jessen
, and the databases had been updated, I see significant potential for something to break. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] DB Update email before actual update available?

2006-12-26 Thread Per Jessen
Dennis Peterson wrote: Per Jessen wrote: Jay Lee wrote: The point of the exercise it to run freshclam *only* when the update is published, not to run every x hours (or minutes) without knowing if there is an update. Looking at my options there... Why not just run freshclam as a daemon

Re: [Clamav-users] DB Update email before actual update available?

2006-12-22 Thread Per Jessen
Jay Lee wrote: The point of the exercise it to run freshclam *only* when the update is published, not to run every x hours (or minutes) without knowing if there is an update. Looking at my options there... Why not just run freshclam as a daemon? /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: [Clamav-users] DB Update email before actual update available?

2006-12-20 Thread Per Jessen
the file is accessible? I don't know the process, but I think so, yes. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] submit-to-publish time much too long for phishing

2006-11-30 Thread Per Jessen
for phishing at all, the response time might be too slow to be useful, given the frequency with which the content changes. That was exactly my point, yes. To be fair, I submitted another phishing sample yesterday, and had the update in about 5 hours, which is much more acceptable. /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: [Clamav-users] submit-to-publish time much too long for phishing

2006-11-29 Thread Per Jessen
Nigel Horne wrote: Use the experimental code, then. It does a good job at catching phishes that aren't even in the database. OK, that sounds interesting, I'll take a look. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit

[Clamav-users] submit-to-publish time much too long for phishing

2006-11-28 Thread Per Jessen
hours later. I understand it was on a weekend etc., but for ClamAVs phishing detection/protection to have any meaning/reason at all, the time from submit to publish needs to be a LOT shorter. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV

Re: [Clamav-users] submit-to-publish time much too long for phishing

2006-11-28 Thread Per Jessen
outbreaks, etc. As a matter of principle, maintaining the database of what ClamAV is supposed to detect must have the highest priority, IMHO. If not, everything else is pointless. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide

Re: [Clamav-users] submit-to-publish time much too long for phishing

2006-11-28 Thread Per Jessen
Per Jessen wrote: The best defense against phishing is and has always been education, fwiw. Quick additional comment - I used to use the very same argument, but experience and age have taught me that people are stupid. /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: [Clamav-users] submit-to-publish time much too long for phishing

2006-11-28 Thread Per Jessen
do I. I've even contributed code myself. I am in no way unhappy with the product, and I shall continue to use it, but I AM a tad unhappy with the promises wrt phishing. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http

Re: [Clamav-users] submit-to-publish time much too long for phishing

2006-11-28 Thread Per Jessen
Gerard Seibert wrote: however, I believe 'stupid' is too harsh. Perhaps - but a great deal more concise :-) /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav

Re: [Clamav-users] submit-to-publish time much too long for phishing

2006-11-28 Thread Per Jessen
the speed with which a new signature can be published is not. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: To ClamAV Developers: donation question

2006-11-09 Thread Per Jessen
a matter of practicality; getting budget approval for a business expense is much easier than for charity. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

[Clamav-users] OUTDATED?

2006-11-04 Thread Per Jessen
like that only happens when the DNS reports a newer software version. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] let's all make a regular domation to ClamAV

2006-11-03 Thread Per Jessen
be a freeloader. I think it is entirely reasonable, but for a business to make donations, I think the ClamAV project needs to be able 1) issue invoices and 2) accept payment via non-paypal channels. Maybe even in EUR. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ http

Re: [Clamav-users] Has anyone set up a local virus definitions server?

2006-07-16 Thread Per Jessen
help is appreciated. Filesystem paths only, no URLs. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] 0.88.3 oops

2006-07-06 Thread Per Jessen
Luca Gibelli wrote: Why isn't freshclam complaining? because there are no security issues associated with the new release. Instead of filling the logs with warnings, we give our users 2 days to perform the upgrade. Hi Luca, I still haven't seen any warning? /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: [Clamav-users] 0.88.3 oops

2006-07-04 Thread Per Jessen
, sysadmins. I find freshclams outdated warning very useful. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] 0.88.3 oops

2006-07-03 Thread Per Jessen
. For everyone's benefit, here is a direct link to 0.88.3: Is there any particular reason why freshclam is not making me aware of the new version? I use the OnOutdatedExecute option, but it hasn't been triggered. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ http

Re: [Clamav-users] 0.88.3 oops

2006-07-03 Thread Per Jessen
Stephen Gran wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:37:42PM +0200, Per Jessen said: Is there any particular reason why freshclam is not making me aware of the new version? I use the OnOutdatedExecute option, but it hasn't been triggered. I understand it will complain on Tuesday. Huh? I've

Re: [Clamav-users] Progressive scan ?

2006-04-20 Thread Per Jessen
of files. Sounds like you could do with a simple combination of clamav and the find command. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: FAQ #13 - Can phishing be considered one kindof spam?

2006-04-19 Thread Per Jessen
Sven Strickroth wrote: Hi, Per Jessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dennis Peterson wrote: Per Jessen wrote: It has always been possible to unpack the pattern files and remove the parts you don't like. The various parts are clearly marked. If you

Re: [Clamav-users] Quarantine for clamav ?

2006-04-18 Thread Per Jessen
of a job for your mail-server, not clamav. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

[Clamav-users] FAQ #13 - Can phishing be considered one kind of spam?

2006-04-15 Thread Per Jessen
What's the current schedule for 0.90? And what are my options (for not having clamav consider phishing==virus) until then? I'm using libclamav programmatically - I don't suppose cl_scanfile() could be convinced to return CL_PHISHING when appropriate :-) /Per Jessen, Zürich

[Clamav-users] Re: virus detected using clamscan but not with Mail::ClamAV perl module

2005-12-22 Thread Per Jessen
Per Jessen wrote: OK, just tried that - it still reports clean. I'm just now upgrading the Mail::ClamAV module to 0.17 (from 0.11) - maybe that'll fix it. Yeah, 0.17 fixed it - thanks for the fast response. Sorry about wasting your time and bandwidth. /Per Jessen, Zürich

[Clamav-users] is there a way of telling when a particular signature was added to the db?

2005-04-16 Thread Per Jessen
(or in which db-version) the signature was added? (using an API of course). thanks. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

[Clamav-users] RE: Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-22 Thread Per Jessen
not seem to imply that ClamAV is not competing with commercial vendors. In fact, what is the _primary_ advantage of ClamAV over [your favourite commercial AV product]? Price. ClamAV may not be competing for commercial gain, but it is certainly competing for the market. /Per Jessen, Zürich

[Clamav-users] OnUpdateExecute

2005-02-25 Thread Per Jessen
hadn't expected it to also stop freshclam checking for new updates. I guess freshclam is waiting for it to finish before continuing - surely not the intentional behaviour? /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

[Clamav-users] Re: OnUpdateExecute

2005-02-25 Thread Per Jessen
when it's running as a daemon - as commandline it'll still use system(). /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.co,uk/freetrial - sign up for your free 30-day trial now! ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

[Clamav-users] triggering a freshclam off the clamav-virusdb notify?

2005-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
or the mirror or what? /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

[Clamav-users] Re: triggering a freshclam off the clamav-virusdb notify?

2005-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Brian Morrison wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:09:23 +0100 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Per Jessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've setup a freshclam that is triggered off the incoming notify for clamav-virusdb. For 722 at 0046CET today, I got the email, but freshclam did not load a new version

[Clamav-users] Re: Re: triggering a freshclam off the clamav-virusdb notify?

2005-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
for the clarification. /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

[Clamav-users] clamav-virusdb-xml ?

2005-02-22 Thread Per Jessen
I haven't seen any mails from the XML-list since Feb4 - what's the story? Was I accidentally unsubscribed or is the list down? /Per Jessen, Zürich ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam and Cron

2005-02-22 Thread Per Jessen
: From /etc/cron.d/clamav: 2 * * * * root /usr/bin/freshclam /Per Jessen -- http://www.spamchek.ch/freetrial - lassen Sie sich überzeugen - 30 Tage Kostenlos! ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

[Clamav-users] Re: clamav-virusdb-xml ?

2005-02-22 Thread Per Jessen
Luca Gibelli wrote: Hello Per Jessen, I haven't seen any mails from the XML-list since Feb4 - what's the story? Was I accidentally unsubscribed or is the list down? We sent a message announcing that we were taking down the service. We'll be providing a new (better, we hope) service