Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah wrote: Is there any way I can disable the check for Email.FreeGame? Is there any reason to suspect this file will ever contain a viable virus? If not then don't bother scanning it. Sorry I don't have an answer for your question. dp

[Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah
I'm not sure what the proper procedure is here. Clamav is detecting Email.FreeGame in two of the database files from my MySQL database (one .MYD and one .ibd). If I dump the contents as text and scan no virus is found, so apparently it's just something in the binary format of the DB triggering

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah wrote: Yes, I'm periodically doing scans of the full drive. I could just skip the mysql directory, but that seems pretty bad security practice. Why does it seem that way to you ? It appears clamav just does a substring match on the exclude, so it would be easy to

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah wrote: Yes, I'm periodically doing scans of the full drive. I could just skip the mysql directory, but that seems pretty bad security practice. Why does it seem that way to you ? I don't think scanning raw mysql database files is going to give

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah
Yes, I'm periodically doing scans of the full drive. I could just skip the mysql directory, but that seems pretty bad security practice. Why does it seem that way to you ? It appears clamav just does a substring match on the exclude, so it would be easy to hide viruses. E.g. If I

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Daniel T. Staal
On Fri, September 28, 2007 12:41 pm, Dennis Peterson said: Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah wrote: Is there any way I can disable the check for Email.FreeGame? Is there any reason to suspect this file will ever contain a viable virus? If not then don't bother scanning it. Sorry I don't have an

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah
On Fri, September 28, 2007 12:41 pm, Dennis Peterson said: Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah wrote: Is there any way I can disable the check for Email.FreeGame? Is there any reason to suspect this file will ever contain a viable virus? If not then don't bother scanning it. Sorry I don't

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah wrote: It appears clamav just does a substring match on the exclude, so it would be easy to hide viruses. E.g. If I excluded .MYD, then you could just have your virus named somevirus.MYD and it would not be caught. If I would not exclude *.MYD

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jeff Thurston [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Im running clamav 91.2 (90.3 did the same thing). After about an hour or so the clamd process gets stuck at 100%. I've checked various logs for the cause and haven't found anything. What OS and platform? I have had load problems with

[Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Jeff Thurston
Im running clamav 91.2 (90.3 did the same thing). After about an hour or so the clamd process gets stuck at 100%. I've checked various logs for the cause and haven't found anything. Clamav is being run by amavis-new 2.3 if that info is of any interest. This is a recent problem, I ran 88.4 just

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Jeff Thurston
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:clamav-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Adams Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:48 AM To: 'ClamAV users ML' Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage Once upon a time, Jeff Thurston [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jeff Thurston wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:clamav-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Adams Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:48 AM To: 'ClamAV users ML' Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage Once upon a time, Jeff Thurston

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Jeff Thurston
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:clamav-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Peterson Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 12:07 PM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage Jeff Thurston wrote: -Original Message-

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Jeff Thurston
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:clamav-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Peterson Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 12:11 PM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage Dennis Peterson wrote: Jeff Thurston wrote:

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jeff Thurston wrote: Please forgive my ignorance, I don't use strace very much... I assume it is as simple as waiting for the process to get stuck at 100% again, then 'strace -p clamd.pid` and look for... what should I look for? Yes, pretty much it. You should probably also use the -f

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dennis Peterson wrote: Jeff Thurston wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:clamav-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Adams Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:48 AM To: 'ClamAV users ML' Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage Once

[Clamav-users] strace and threads (was Re: clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage)

2007-09-28 Thread David F. Skoll
Dennis Peterson wrote: Yes, pretty much it. You should probably also use the -f (follow) switch to see what the kids are doing, too. Does strace work well with POSIX threads on Linux? My impression was not, but maybe my information is out of date. Regards, David.

Re: [Clamav-users] strace and threads (was Re: clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage)

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: Yes, pretty much it. You should probably also use the -f (follow) switch to see what the kids are doing, too. Does strace work well with POSIX threads on Linux? My impression was not, but maybe my information is out of date. I'm a Solaris guy

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Török Edvin
On 9/28/07, Jeff Thurston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:clamav-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Adams Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:48 AM To: 'ClamAV users ML' Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah wrote: It appears clamav just does a substring match on the exclude, so it would be easy to hide viruses. E.g. If I excluded .MYD, then you could just have your virus named somevirus.MYD and it would not be caught. If I would not

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah wrote: hidden in /home/someuser/var/lib/mysql/my-virus-here. Users should not be able to write to that directory at all, it should be Take a closer look, that's not the real mysql directory, just a subdirectory under the users home

Re: [Clamav-users] strace and threads (was Re: clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage)

2007-09-28 Thread Jeff Thurston
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:clamav-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Peterson Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 12:35 PM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] strace and threads (was Re: clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage) David F. Skoll