[Clamav-users] Re: Some viruses go through

2004-04-06 Thread Mimmus
Sorry, sorry, sorry. I had some troubles with subscription AND posting by a newsreader. I don't think that it is a problem related to specific virus/message, peraphs it is a fetchmail related issue. I download messages from external POP3 accounts of my users using fetchmail and then I relay them

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-0.70-rc make probs

2004-04-06 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Schmidt, Patrick wrote: What's up? ./configure is done without errors, but make stop at the beginning (SuSE 8.2, kernel 2.4.20,gcc 3.3 20030226) ... How about the recent CVS snapshot? Last one compiles and installs OK on my Fedora Core 2 test 2. Usually some problems are already fixed in CVS

[Clamav-users] not recognising virus in zip files

2004-04-06 Thread Regan Yelcich
the viruses no problem. BUT... if I send the zip file which contains the virus to myself as a mail attachment, clam doesn't recognise the virus at all and just lets it through. I have updated to: clamdscan / ClamAV version devel-20040406 but that doesn't seem to have fixed it. Any ideas? Regan

Re: [Clamav-users] not recognising virus in zip files

2004-04-06 Thread Antony Stone
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 11:57 am, Regan Yelcich wrote: I'm having problems with the SomeFool virus and zip files... here's what's happening... If I upload the zip file to the server and run clamscan or clamdscan on the file it recognises the virus no problem. If I extract the virus and

Re: [Clamav-users] Question on SomeFool Virus

2004-04-06 Thread Vernon A. Fort
Antony Stone wrote: On Tuesday 06 April 2004 9:57 am, Vernon A. Fort wrote: I have several emails which clamav detects as 'Worm.SomeFool.Gen-2', but Sophos nor McAcfee will detect the virus. Would this be some new varient that clamav fould. From the description, this sig was added to detect

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Korchmenuk Nickolay
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 23:38:08 -0500 Erick Perez - Vision Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: If Worm.SomeFool is Netsky, then why is not labeled as netsky? Also, is there a way to make an alias in the virus database so my users can see netsky instead of Worm.Somefool? It's time to place

Re: [Clamav-users] not recognising virus in zip files

2004-04-06 Thread Regan Yelcich
sorry - should have mentioned that! clam is being called through MIMEDefang 2.36 just re-installed clam to version 0.68-1 to see if that changed anything - but it didnt. Regan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd exited on signal 6

2004-04-06 Thread Mipam
So this problem is know in 0.70-rc and should have been fixed? On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:25:57 +0200 (MET DST) Mipam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Im facing this problem: kernel: pid 567 (clamd), uid 1006: exited on signal 6 Probably some

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Don't Understand

2004-04-06 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 02:45, Rmi Goyard wrote: Thanks guys Now Clamav seems to work. I'm trying now use it witth Amavisd-new The easiest thing to do is to run amavis-new and clamd under the same user. Since you will upgrade clamav more often than amavis, it's probably easiest to run the

Re: [Clamav-users] Trojan.Dropper.JS.Mimail.B ?

2004-04-06 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Thanks. I hadn't looked back nearly that far. Something really odd is going on then. Is it possible all of these folks really are suddenly infected? Something to research... Tomasz Papszun wrote: On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 at 8:54:02 -0500, Keith Murphy wrote: I'm suddenly seeing a buttload of

[Clamav-users] Re: Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Antony Stone wrote: [...] I think the best we'll ever achieve is a cross-reference database. Yes please. What needs to be done to get this online? Who needs access to what? Public reference submissions, or core maintainers? I think we desperately need this functionality. -- Jesse

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Erick Perez - Vision Media [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Question: If Worm.SomeFool is Netsky, then why is not labeled as netsky? Answer: If netsky is Worm.SomeFool, then why is it not labeled as Worm.SomeFool? Basically that's because the users keep complaning about the virus names that cannot be

[Clamav-users] Re: Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Antony Stone wrote: [...] I think the best we'll ever achieve is a cross-reference database. Yes please. What needs to be done to get this online? Who needs access to what? Public reference submissions, or core maintainers? I think we desperately need this

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So maybe, as with celestial objects, there should be agreement that the first AV 'vendor' to publish a detection for a virus should be given the honour of naming it and the other vendors adopt the same name rather than inventing their own (and potentially

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Antony Stone
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 3:58 pm, Eric Rostetter wrote: Quoting Erick Perez - Vision Media [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Question: If Worm.SomeFool is Netsky, then why is not labeled as netsky? Answer: If netsky is Worm.SomeFool, then why is it not labeled as Worm.SomeFool? Do you call people

[Clamav-users] Strange syslog messages from clamav-milter

2004-04-06 Thread Orion Poplawski
I'm periodically seeing the following syslogd messages: Apr 6 09:23:37 earth rvard.edu n_children = 1 Received: PORT 50143 Connecting to local port 50143 clamfi_abort pthread_cond_broadcast n_children = 0 clamfi_close clamfi_connect: connection from pc-68-118-183-26.will.ct.charter.com

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Hanford, Seth
If netsky is Worm.SomeFool, then why is it not labeled as Worm.SomeFool? Rhetoric aside, this is obviously an itch that needs scratched. Clam does a wonderful job and (as was the case with SomeFool) does it faster than most. Perhaps we might be able to scratch up support for an alias

Re: [Clamav-users] Strange syslog messages from clamav-milter

2004-04-06 Thread Nigel Horne
On Tuesday 06 Apr 2004 4:28 pm, Orion Poplawski wrote: I'm periodically seeing the following syslogd messages: Any help on stopping these would be greatly appreciated. Rerun configure without '--enable-debug'. - Orion -- Nigel Horne. Arranger, Composer, Typesetter. NJH Music, Barnsley, UK.

[Clamav-users] clamd.ctl file not read in FC1

2004-04-06 Thread Karl Hakmiller
clamav/d (0.68) installed. When rebooting in FC1 I get FAILED report on read of /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl though the file appears to exist. Is there some way I can modify or fix that file short of re-installing clamav entirely? Original installation does not seem to be entirely broken as I

[Clamav-users] undetected virus by clamav

2004-04-06 Thread Martin Gruss
I have 3 viruses found on my harddrive which not detected by clamav other scanner like fprot or mcaffee detect the virus as 1.ex# Found the MultiDropper-IY trojan !!! 2.ex# Found the W32/Spybot.worm.gen.d virus !!! 3.ex# Found the IRC/Flood.dj trojan !!! I have scan the files

Re: [Clamav-users] Segmentation fault in clamav-0.70rc-1

2004-04-06 Thread Claudio Alonso
It's a good idea to disable archive/mail support when using on-access scanner. Sorry I didn't answer before, I wasn't available... I disabled archive/mail support and the problem persists. In all the cases the problem occurs exactly when the log rotates. I find the last line of the previous

Re: [Clamav-users] Trojan.Dropper.JS.Mimail.B ?

2004-04-06 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Keith G. Murphy wrote: Thanks. I hadn't looked back nearly that far. Something really odd is going on then. Is it possible all of these folks really are suddenly infected? Something to research... It makes more sense now. I'm running Debian stable, and had installed Luca Gibelli's 0.65-1

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread jef moskot
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Eric Rostetter wrote: If netsky is Worm.SomeFool, then why is it not labeled as Worm.SomeFool? While I agree with this in principle, I think for instances where a question like this pops up at least once a week just on this list, it might be worth it to just bite the bullet

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Bit Fuzzy
While I can and do understand what Eric was saying, I have to agree with Erick. http://www.bitdefender.com/index.php - Bitdefender http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php - AVG http://www.pandasoftware.com/home/ - Panda http://www.symantec.com/ - Norton http://us.mcafee.com/default.asp - Mcafee

[Clamav-users] Freshclam no longer checking in.

2004-04-06 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On my FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 system, I upgraded to the latest clamd port, when it was released a few days ago. Now, freshclam doesn't check in to look for updates anymore, and only does so if I stopr and restart it - at that point it downloads the update, successfully notifys clamd, then

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 at 12:17:05 -0400, Hanford, Seth wrote: If we had as part of the submission process an additional field noting what name the detecting AV called it There is such a field! And if it's too short, you can add more names/details/URLs in the description field (that big area

RE: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Diego d'Ambra
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:clamav-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jef moskot Sent: 6. april 2004 19:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Eric Rostetter wrote: If netsky is Worm.SomeFool, then why is it

[Clamav-users] Supervised Clamd

2004-04-06 Thread Jeff Bilder
Has anyone gotten Clamd to run with daemontools? I have a clamd running supervised, but the log file will not supervise correctly. I have /service/clamd/log with: [EMAIL PROTECTED] spamd]# cd /service/clamd/log/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# ls -l total 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 101 Apr 6

[Clamav-users] compiling clamav 0.68

2004-04-06 Thread Pad Hosmane
Hi, I am compiling clamav 0.68 on HP-UX 11.00. I am getting following error during make. I am using GCC 3.0.1. ++ gcc -g -O2 -o clamscan clamscan.o options.o getopt.o others.o manager.o treewalk.o

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Peter Bonivart
Diego d'Ambra wrote: And that is what we'll (try to) do in the future (if a common name has been established). But that would break statistics. I don't mind if the name is different as long as it can be cross-referenced. Someone was working on a web site with just that but I haven't heard of

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread jef moskot
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Eric Rostetter wrote: But changing the name after the fact would just confuse people more. I completely disagree. Hardcore Clam users are more likely to understand the reality of the situation and realize that the ClamAV team has to call the viruses SOMETHING. Usually,

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting jef moskot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Eric Rostetter wrote: But changing the name after the fact would just confuse people more. I completely disagree. Hardcore Clam users are more likely to understand the reality of the situation and realize that the ClamAV team has to call

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread jef moskot
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Eric Rostetter wrote: Great for netsky since almost everyone uses it. Exactly. Should clamav have migrated along from SCO to NOVARG to MYDOOM just because the others came along later and in that order? It could easily be taken on a case-by-case basis. But, as even you

[Clamav-users] help configuring 0.70-rc w/gnu mp

2004-04-06 Thread Norman Yee
hi, i'm trying to get clamav 0.70-rc installed and have gmp installed in a directory under my home dir (eg. /home/norm/bin/gmp) when i run ./configure --prefix=/home/norm/bin/clamav --disable-clamav --enable-milter one of the messages i see is: checking for mpz_init in -lgmp... no WARNING:

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Antony Stone
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 9:44 pm, jef moskot wrote: The focus of the product is to stop viruses, not to name them with a popular name. Yes, but this is not best accomplished by calling users stupid (even when they are). That may be true, however it's no excuse for allowing stupid users to

Re: [Clamav-users] help configuring 0.70-rc w/gnu mp

2004-04-06 Thread Stephen Gran
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 01:51:29PM -0700, Norman Yee said: hi, i'm trying to get clamav 0.70-rc installed and have gmp installed in a directory under my home dir (eg. /home/norm/bin/gmp) when i run ./configure --prefix=/home/norm/bin/clamav --disable-clamav --enable-milter one of

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread jef moskot
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Antony Stone wrote: There are many examples of the commercial A-V vendors having different names for the same virus... That's true, but when that's the case for an extremely prevalent virus, it's usually noted in the media. Using the well-known naming convention is a much

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
At 23:38 05-04-2004 -0500, you wrote: Question: If Worm.SomeFool is Netsky, then why is not labeled as netsky? Also, is there a way to make an alias in the virus database so my users can see netsky instead of Worm.Somefool? Basically that's because the users keep complaning about the virus names

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Fisher
B. van Ouwerkerk wrote: At 23:38 05-04-2004 -0500, you wrote: Question: If Worm.SomeFool is Netsky, then why is not labeled as netsky? It would be good if all AV software would use the same names. Still, most commercial AV vendors are using their own naming conventions and so does Clamav.

[Clamav-users] Re: Don't Understand

2004-04-06 Thread RĂ©mi Goyard
Thanks guys Now Clamav seems to work. I'm trying now use it witth Amavisd-new and when i start amavisd in debug mode, i try to send a test email using telnet on 10024 i've got an error that tell me can't access the file in the /var/lib/amavis/tmp directory, ownership of this directory is set to

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Graham Murray
Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, it is usually happen the Clamav recognises the virii before the other AV vendors so no well-known name was available. See the archive for the more detailed answers, this question already answered here. So maybe, as with celestial objects, there

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Antony Stone
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 9:48 am, Graham Murray wrote: Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, it is usually happen the Clamav recognises the virii before the other AV vendors so no well-known name was available. See the archive for the more detailed answers, this question already

[Clamav-users] clamav-0.70-rc make probs

2004-04-06 Thread Schmidt, Patrick
What's up? ./configure is done without errors, but make stop at the beginning (SuSE 8.2, kernel 2.4.20,gcc 3.3 20030226) ... make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/src/clamav-0.70-rc' Making all in libclamav make[2]: Entering directory `/src/clamav-0.70-rc/libclamav' source='matcher.c'

RE: [Clamav-users] Virus Names

2004-04-06 Thread Randal, Phil
Graham Murray wrote: So maybe, as with celestial objects, there should be agreement that the first AV 'vendor' to publish a detection for a virus should be given the honour of naming it and the other vendors adopt the same name rather than inventing their own (and potentially causing

[Clamav-users] Question on SomeFool Virus

2004-04-06 Thread Vernon A. Fort
I have several emails which clamav detects as 'Worm.SomeFool.Gen-2', but Sophos nor McAcfee will detect the virus. Would this be some new varient that clamav fould. From the description, this sig was added to detect possible future varients of the NetSky viruses. Should I submit this? or

Re: [Clamav-users] Question on SomeFool Virus

2004-04-06 Thread Antony Stone
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 9:57 am, Vernon A. Fort wrote: I have several emails which clamav detects as 'Worm.SomeFool.Gen-2', but Sophos nor McAcfee will detect the virus. Would this be some new varient that clamav fould. From the description, this sig was added to detect possible future