Re: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses

2004-03-05 Thread clamav
uvscan is detecting zipped/passworded bagle zip's as Worm.Bagle.Gen-zippwd. Any ideas as to how they might be doing this? -Eric On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Lucas Albers wrote: Tomasz Papszun said: WE ASK USERS TO NOT SUBMIT naked zip files IF their contents is DETECTED as infected by ClamAV AFTER

Re: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses

2004-03-05 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:31:35 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uvscan is detecting zipped/passworded bagle zip's as Worm.Bagle.Gen-zippwd. Any ideas as to how they might be doing this? Please don't top post. That's not your uvscan but ClamAV detecting the worm. -- oo.

Re: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses

2004-03-03 Thread Chris Meadors
Paul Boven wrote: How about only trying every word in the mail-body as a key to try, instead of brute-forcing? The virus(-writer) cannot afford to fudge the password in the mail-body: One would hope that the subset of users that is clever enough to reconstruct the password, yet stupid enough

RE: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses

2004-03-03 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
But... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Meadors Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 11:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses Paul Boven wrote: How about only trying every word

Re: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses

2004-03-03 Thread Daniel Wiberg
Jesper Juhl wrote: What I'm thinking is; Would it be feasible to add an option to attempt to brute-force-crack the passwords on zip files when scanning them? Yes, it would slow down scanning immensely, and there's *no* way it should ever be a default option, but zip file passwords are /resonably/

RE: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses

2004-03-03 Thread Diego d'Ambra
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:clamav-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesper Juhl Sent: 3. marts 2004 02:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses What I'm thinking is; Would it be feasible to add an option

Re: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses

2004-03-03 Thread Shawn Tayler
There used to be a utility, way back in my OS/2 days, I think it was called Stripper or something like that. It removed the HTML crap from files leaving only the plain text... Shawn On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 07:43:35 + Chris Meadors [EMAIL PROTECTED] exclaimed: Good point. That should take

Re: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses

2004-03-03 Thread Lucas Albers
Tomasz Papszun said: WE ASK USERS TO NOT SUBMIT naked zip files IF their contents is DETECTED as infected by ClamAV AFTER UNZIPPING. It's a utter waste of our time, which results in delays in processing really significant samples! Why not add this on the web submittal nag screen? Luke Computer

[Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses

2004-03-02 Thread Charlie Watts
Clearly the virus DB maintainers are inundated with password-protected .zip files with viruses inside. I think I understand the technical impossibility of making a signature for these - the .zip header is the same, and then the filenames inside are randomized, as is the password, and thus the

Re: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses

2004-03-02 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Charlie Watts wrote: Clearly the virus DB maintainers are inundated with password-protected .zip files with viruses inside. I think I understand the technical impossibility of making a signature for these - the .zip header is the same, and then the filenames inside are

Re: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses

2004-03-02 Thread Rembrandt
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 02:54:35 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesper Juhl) wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Charlie Watts wrote: Clearly the virus DB maintainers are inundated with password-protected.zip files with viruses inside. I think I understand the technical impossibility of making a

Re: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses

2004-03-02 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Rembrandt wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 02:54:35 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesper Juhl) wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Charlie Watts wrote: Clearly the virus DB maintainers are inundated with password-protected.zip files with viruses inside. I think I

RE: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses

2004-03-02 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
: [Clamav-users] Password-protected .zip file viruses On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Charlie Watts wrote: Clearly the virus DB maintainers are inundated with password-protected .zip files with viruses inside. I think I understand the technical impossibility of making a signature