Re: [Clamav-users] DNS server "blocks" database.clamav.net?

2009-04-02 Thread Arancaytar
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Arancaytar : > >> Further investigation showed that the primary DNS server in my settings >> (85.255.112.204) inexplicably resolves database.clamav.net to 127.0.0.1, >> which effectively blocks the domain from being accessed. You can see >> this for yourself by running

Re: [Clamav-users] DNS server "blocks" database.clamav.net?

2009-04-02 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Arancaytar : > Further investigation showed that the primary DNS server in my settings > (85.255.112.204) inexplicably resolves database.clamav.net to 127.0.0.1, > which effectively blocks the domain from being accessed. You can see > this for yourself by running nslookup database.clamav.net 85.

Re: [Clamav-users] DNS server "blocks" database.clamav.net?

2009-04-02 Thread Steve Basford
> Has anyone else ever experienced such a "DNS spoofing" attack against > database.clamav.net? Hi, I know this doesn't really help... but there is certainly malware out there that will try to block access to Clamav.net http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md5=746765007ebedbf60fdac206c8fb

Re: [Clamav-users] DNS server "blocks" database.clamav.net?

2009-04-02 Thread Thomas Nguyen Van
5041 - Original Message - From: "Arancaytar" To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2009 8:45:33 AM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [Clamav-users] DNS server "blocks" database.clamav.net? Hi, this is my first time here so I'm

[Clamav-users] DNS server "blocks" database.clamav.net?

2009-04-02 Thread Arancaytar
Hi, this is my first time here so I'm sorry if I post my question in the wrong place. A few days ago, I noticed ClamAV failing to download its signature update. I put this down to a network or server problem, but after several failures I got suspicious and found something odd in the log: Clam was