Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
server about ready to go - and I've taken the opportunity to roll in some better features that the current live one. However, I don't have the hardware to deploy it with yet - and I probably won't for several months. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books

[Clamav-users] Debian Sarge - what now ?

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
annoying that having your server taken down without warning. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books

Re: [Clamav-users] Upgrading System for latest ClamAV version

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
when the software has progressed over the years), tested it fully, and then migrated all the users and their data. That would, of course, be assuming I had the hardware to host a new server on - which I don't. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
it was going to be turned off. Like many others, the first I knew was when I got to work this morning and the server wasn't working. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking

Re: [Clamav-users] Upgrading System for latest ClamAV version

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
the closed source outfits of doing. I can appreciate why it's been done, I just think it was done very badly. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
on them with no warning this morning. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
. Luckily it's not been a busy day today ! -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
for the simple reason that I'd have been able to deal with it. An old version of ClamAV can't find the newest viruses. The really old ones don't run in the wild anymore. For half the day I've been forced to detect no virus's. Now I'm only detecting the ones known about up till yesterday. -- Simon

Re: [Clamav-users] Upgrading System for latest ClamAV version

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
might well download the source and see what happens. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
of which packages to roll back to (which had been deleted from the repos - now I keep backup copies !) So keeping up to date has it's own risks - hence why many people take the attitude of if it aint broke, don't fix it. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books

Re: [Clamav-users] Upgrading System for latest ClamAV version

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
to build clam on Sarge (I've just verified that is true). If your going to try this next week the following may help... Thanks, that's possibly the most constructive thing written all day ! -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
...@i6ix.com wrote: It's broke It is now please go fix it. I will, now I know about it. But it would have been nice to do it at a more convenient time, and with advance notice so I could use it to get some resource allocated by management. -- Simon Hobson Visit http

Re: [Clamav-users] Upgrading System for latest ClamAV version

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
metal recovery of any of my Xen hosts, otherwise I've potentially quite a few machines to restore. I can of course restore all of them as they were from regular backups - I wouldn't want to try and rebuild them all against the clock. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
and every update automatically. And then just fix things as they break - how I love watching the going on on patch Tuesdays :-) -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
the policy decisions I've taken. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Simon Hobson
until I can fix it. I can think of two other ways this could have been done, with very little effort, and with little or no inconvenience to what you would consider superior admins. That's irrelevant now, you've done what you've done and it's not going to be undone. -- Simon Hobson Visit

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
, and a responsibility to try and make as many owners/users aware of the risks - but it is still the owner/users decision on whether that risk is acceptable TO THEM. They were even nice enough to give months of warnings. The efficacy of such is subject to a certain amount of debate. -- Simon

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
. You may be nice people - but I speak as I find. The above is how I find. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
of users - and this has been the justification for their approach to this issue. But at the very same time they are recommending a setup which will silently not scan mail if there's a problem with ClamAV. Interesting logic there guys. -- Simon Hobson Visit http

Re: [Clamav-users] Thanks for the weekend entertainment

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
- not in cash, but in things like answering users (frequently FAQ) queries on mailing lists and so on. And of course, taking every opportunity to demonstrate that it can be an alternative option. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-19 Thread Simon Hobson
of people's objections - apart from choosing the option they did, at least in these threads, the argument has been that there was **NO** other option, which quite frankly was never accepted as true or reasonable. Lessons to be learned on both sides I think. -- Simon Hobson Visit http

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-19 Thread Simon Hobson
that way. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us build a comprehensive

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-19 Thread Simon Hobson
managers ! -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-19 Thread Simon Hobson
party packages with Software Update - as far as the user is concerned, this is an Apple supplied package and Apple provide the updates even if it is an open source program. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-20 Thread Simon Hobson
is available to all - either like it or lump it, but either way, keep your insults to yourself. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
good. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
a major broadcaster deciding to go digital - and then comeing round to blow up your radio to stop you listening to the local station you actually want to listen to that is still on analogue. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
possible way they could have acted. Even now when their stance has been shown to be full of logical holes, they still persist that anyone disagreeing with their we did nothing wrong stance are a bunch of whining losers. That's how it comes across to me anyway. -- Simon Hobson Visit http

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
this. You better upgrade, sorry ! By warning people and releaseing a known-bad signature with a message, somehow it's their fault now. No, it's not all their fault. But they sure did handle it badly. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
an implicit permission by virtue of the user running the update process to fetch signature updates. That's a very tenuous thing to infer when pushing an update that is so different in purpose to what would normally be fetched. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
not, and it appears will never, make such an admission. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books

Re: [Clamav-users] illegal or not, make a valid argument (was no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
negative PR for those responsible. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
with suggested such a thing then I would speak up on that. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
*.deb (you can skip docs and testfiles) apt-get -f install if some deps is broken ah forgot, then dpkg --purge libclamav3 -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
it with updates, that's fine and it still leaves me in control of what I run and when I update it. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-22 Thread Simon Hobson
the warnings that updates have stopped working. If they ignore things aren't working errors then I'd agree with you - let them deal with it. I don't agree with the argument that things are not optimal is a warning to upgrade before things go bang. -- Simon Hobson Visit http

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-04-23 Thread Simon Hobson
a moot point - the team didn't do that, we are where we are, and a lot of people are unhappy for various reasons. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-04-23 Thread Simon Hobson
it. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-04-23 Thread Simon Hobson
and killing something off. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us build

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-04-24 Thread Simon Hobson
stop when ClamAV does - even though that is logically inconsistent with the argument that old versions couldn't be allowed to continue without updates. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories

Re: [Clamav-users] Yet more clubbing of deceased equine.

2010-04-24 Thread Simon Hobson
that harm first hand - the motive and end results were identical, only the means differs. Actions designed to cause harm to a computer system, and a criminal offence in the UK. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-04-24 Thread Simon Hobson
would someone turn off updates that are working ? -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books

Re: [Clamav-users] Yet more clubbing of deceased equine.

2010-04-24 Thread Simon Hobson
for. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit

Re: [Clamav-users] Yet more clubbing of deceased equine.

2010-04-24 Thread Simon Hobson
than just can't be done. Now the external factors have been pointed out, that is somewhat harder than it first appears. See, contrary to what some people may be thinking, I can be persuaded by **reasoned** debate. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books

Re: [Clamav-users] Yet more clubbing of deceased equine.

2010-04-25 Thread Simon Hobson
, with the added bonus of being able to examine logs and work out the scale of the problem - ie how many installations were still accessing the old names vs the new names. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Hobson
servers :-/ -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-05-03 Thread Simon Hobson
of them would have been viable. The rest of your response rather reinforces Marks point. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-05-03 Thread Simon Hobson
**was** going to break sooner or later **given the decision to make it do so** are all true statements. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Simon Hobson
://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.123.1530rep=rep1type=pdf rsync is covered from section 3 onwards. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available

Re: [Clamav-users] Some doubts about Clamav upgrade

2010-05-05 Thread Simon Hobson
if some deps is broken ah forgot, then dpkg --purge libclamav3 -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books

Re: [Clamav-users] Some doubts about Clamav upgrade

2010-05-05 Thread Simon Hobson
a full backup and a means of reverting back if something goes wrong. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books

Re: [Clamav-users] Tiered freshclam updates on port443

2010-05-20 Thread Simon Hobson
, being a good netizen, and allowing users to do their jobs. Having said all that, in this case, I'm inclined to agree that the requested functionality isn't really a generally useful think to be doing. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed

Re: [Clamav-users] block attachment with certain file endings (also in archives)

2010-09-28 Thread Simon Hobson
. My knowledge isn't enough to say (without searching) where it's configured - but I do recall there is a Perl array with a list of extensions to block. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories

Re: [clamav-users] daily database broken again

2011-03-01 Thread Simon Hobson
to users lacks sensitivity at times. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. ___ Help us build

Re: [clamav-users] Clamav 0.97.0 to 0.97.1 on squeeze(Debian 6.0)

2011-06-22 Thread Simon Hobson
their pros and cons - you would have to work which is best for you. I hope this gives you some idea of the process involved, and why there is inevitably a delay before an update appears when you apt-get update apt-get upgrade. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk

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

2011-11-09 Thread Simon Hobson
should be rejected if it can't be scanned - seems a reasonable question to me. The OP didn't say is it possible for ClamAV to reject the message, they rather correctly asked about flagging it for rejection. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed

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

2011-11-09 Thread Simon Hobson
, it is actually an interesting question - should/does clamav return not-scanned-due-to-user-restriction in such cases? I guess that's the key question, and is it possible to set the reported result to reject in that case ? -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books

Re: [clamav-users] Some questions about setting up ClamAV

2012-01-25 Thread Simon Hobson
can we do this? You can't - it's not there to scan before it's been uploaded. You'd need to look at the software being used and get it to scan all new files before it goes on to use them. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson

Re: [clamav-users] Some questions about setting up ClamAV

2012-01-28 Thread Simon Hobson
. If it is not possible to set up clamAV like this, how can we set up a cron job to scan the image folders and domain / server ? You create a cron job, to run at whatever schedule you want, that calls Clamscan with the options you want. -- Simon Hobson Visit http

Re: [clamav-users] Licensing DLLs

2012-05-14 Thread Simon Hobson
it wrong. I dare say they'd be happier if the whole lot was GPLd, but Rome wasn't built in a day. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e

Re: [clamav-users] linux scan of WordPress directories

2012-08-14 Thread Simon Hobson
Vid Luther wrote: I'm wondering if it's possible to run ClamAV on a file system that has a ton of WordPress installs. Yes, use (IIRC) clamscan to scan the directories. I've done that on my servers when there's been any question about a customer site. -- Simon Hobson Visit http

Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name?

2013-01-12 Thread Simon Hobson
Pancho wrote: While I understand the comment, it makes it risky I believe from a security perspective to tell users anything more than file contains virus. I say this because if we find a virus and provide the message file contains virus with name ClamAV proprietary virus name XYZ then

Re: [clamav-users] Virus names - a rose by any name?

2013-01-13 Thread Simon Hobson
Pancho wrote: Hi - thanks to everyone for the replies. I have seen 2 replies now and it may well be that I have not been clear enough because both are at cross purposes. Then it might help if you alaborated on what you meant. Unfortunately I don't have further time to invest in this topic but I

[clamav-users] Debian packaging

2013-12-16 Thread Simon Hobson
Does anyone know what the situation is with Debian packages ? It's been something like 2 months now and 0.98 still doesn't appear to have made it to unstable, let alone testing. I'm assuming this also affects Debian derived distros like Mint and Ubuntu.

Re: [clamav-users] Debian packaging

2013-12-17 Thread Simon Hobson
Greg Folkert wrote: Simon, Why not open a Bug, or look to see if there is one. Oh wait: In Pending Upload bugs for http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727027 Just gotta look. Rending since Oct 2013 Yes indeed. And lookit that, some Simon Hobson li...@thehobsons.co.uk Commented

Re: [clamav-users] Is there any chance of the 97.8 version as shipped by ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, working?

2014-01-27 Thread Simon Hobson
Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: So, is there any hope of making it work again using what the repo's for ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS will put back in (version 97.8) using synaptic? Or has the data format changed so much its hopeless? 97.8 is the current stable version in Debian (98 has just

Re: [clamav-users] Debian packaging

2014-02-12 Thread Simon Hobson
Greg Folkert g...@donor.com wrote: Debian Stable is that. If you must have 0.98.1, you should also be using backports... at least I used to until I just used Sid for everything. Backports help extend Stable's longevity and freshness a bit... but it is no guarantee 0.98.1 will be there.

[clamav-users] Problem with Freshclam and local mirror

2014-04-01 Thread Simon Hobson
Because I've several machines using it, I've setup one to act as a local server, with the others pulling their updates from it. It's been generally reliable for years, but since updating to 0.98.1 I'm having repeated problems where the slaves just stop fetching updates. As an example, one of

Re: [clamav-users] Problem with Freshclam and local mirror

2014-04-01 Thread Simon Hobson
Greg Folkert g...@donor.com wrote: I had this problem and have used a brute force solution to remove the mirrors.dat file every day so it'll ignore previous problems (like the machine being unavailable or other such issues) I had already considered the same. Since I've got two machines that

Re: [clamav-users] Problem with Freshclam and local mirror

2014-04-02 Thread Simon Hobson
Shawn Webb sw...@sourcefire.com wrote: I suspect the fault lies in a rather small piece of code that was supposed to make the call to recv() a little more robust. If you have the ability (or desire) to compile from source, can you please try the attached patch? If the patch works, I'll

Re: [clamav-users] clamav stops boot

2014-05-02 Thread Simon Hobson
Alain Zidouemba azidoue...@sourcefire.com wrote: The ClamAV engine won't update itself automatically. You will have to manually perform that operation. The latest version of ClamAV (version 0.98.1) can be downloaded here: http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/download/sources/ However, as the OP is

Re: [clamav-users] clamav-users-bounces DKIM signature verify error

2014-05-28 Thread Simon Hobson
Marcello Lupo ml...@itspecialist.it wrote: Have you any idea of the reason for this problem and how to let it go away? Other than DKIM breaks stuff As now I’m loosing some messages from the list for sure. Stop using mailing lists OR stop using DKIM Or you might be able to tune DKIM to

Re: [clamav-users] clamav-users-bounces DKIM signature verify error

2014-05-29 Thread Simon Hobson
Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: ... but isn't this a bit off topic? Yes it is - but the OP asked here as he was having problems with this list. In this particular case, he's got a local configuration issue nothing really to do with clamav, SPF, or DKIM (as a protocol). Yes

Re: [clamav-users] clamav-users-bounces DKIM signature verify error

2014-05-29 Thread Simon Hobson
Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: No, sending bounces to the list is his problem. Sorry, but that's a relatively common techie attitude - ignore the fact that the end user probably has no idea what's going on (else why ask for help about it ?) From the USER perspective, he has a

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV installation is OUTDATE!

2015-02-25 Thread Simon Hobson
Marcio Fiorette marcio.fiore...@gmail.com wrote: Não estou conseguindo atualizar o ClamAV da versão 0.98.5 para 0.98.6 no Debian 7. Já segui os procedimentos que estão no site www.clamav.net e mesmo assim não obtive sucesso. Google tells me you're trying to update but it's not working. Did

Re: [clamav-users] clamav-milter LocalNet option / outgoing mail (Debian Wheezy)

2015-02-22 Thread Simon Hobson
Daniel Spies ds20150222c...@pskx.net wrote: In my opinion, it doesn't make any sense to scan e-mail leaving the server. The recipient will never trust these tags anyway. So why scan at all? It's important to scan incoming mail, be it from a local or an external client. I disagree.

Re: [clamav-users] clamav-milter LocalNet option / outgoing mail (Debian Wheezy)

2015-02-22 Thread Simon Hobson
OK, this is getting well off-topic for this list, this will be my final say on the matter - and from some of the other comments I see I'm not alone in considering you part of the problem. Daniel Spies ds20150222c...@pskx.net wrote: Recipients may not trust the tags, but it *should* stop

Re: [clamav-users] clamav-milter LocalNet option / outgoing mail (Debian Wheezy)

2015-02-23 Thread Simon Hobson
Daniel Spies ds20150222c...@pskx.net wrote: I don't get how you find it more appropriate to silently reject someone's e-mail I don't. I don't know where you got that from - perhaps it's from seeing so many examples of bad practice that's become the norm so you assume everyone is that bad ?

Re: [clamav-users] Clamd and Systemd

2015-06-19 Thread Simon Hobson
Scott Kitterman deb...@kitterman.com wrote: Is harmless supposed to include not installable ? No. What's not installable? Install clamav-daemon (with the lib) and don't worry about it. Given that I wouldn't be bothered at all if SystemD was just an init system, it's all the other crap

Re: [clamav-users] Clamd and Systemd

2015-06-18 Thread Simon Hobson
G.W. Haywood cla...@jubileegroup.co.uk wrote: I would http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_remove_systemd_from_a_Debian_jessie/sid_installation Been there, done that, but what a right PITA it creates - specifically trying to figure what package is triggering a chain of

Re: [clamav-users] mail server and clamav in different machine

2015-06-21 Thread Simon Hobson
M.hafez wdeln...@yahoo.com wrote: can i install the mail server (win or Linux based ) and the clamav in different machine, that may allow me to filter more than one mailer server using the same Clamav machine. In principle yes, though it very much depends on how you are going to pass the

Re: [clamav-users] unsubscribe

2015-05-27 Thread Simon Hobson
Cmos35 x.lep...@laposte.net wrote: I never asked to be unsubscribed, I asked a question and I unsubscribed by David Barr No, he didn't unsubscribe you - only you can do that (or someone forging your email address in the sender field) I assume he wanted to unsubscribe from the list, but

Re: [clamav-users] Threading (Was: How can Clam/Cisco be so irresponsibly reckless and nonchalant to Windows users?)

2016-02-18 Thread Simon Hobson
Mark Allan wrote: > >> For my, I use Mail.app the majority of the time. Apparently if I delete >> lines and inline reply like I do in Thunderbird, Mail.app just tells me to >> eat dust and unthreads the whole thing. Guess I should file a bug with >> Apple. > > That's

Re: [clamav-users] GPL license question

2016-09-18 Thread Simon Hobson
Borough Rumford wrote: > I know clamav is released under GPL license, and third-party commercial app > shouldn’t link libclamav. Is the library under the GPL or LGPL - the answer is different for the two licences ?

Re: [clamav-users] TTL of DNS recode

2016-11-24 Thread Simon Hobson
Al Varnell wrote: > So I think I have the answer for this one. From my research it would seem > that TTL values are set by the DNS server you are accessing, not by the > ClamAV and is the same for all records on that server. You would have to > check with the DNS ISP to

Re: [clamav-users] TTL of DNS recode

2016-11-24 Thread Simon Hobson
I realise English is not your main language and this is probably very difficult for you to explain in what is to you a foreign language, but I don't think we are able to figure out just what is not working ... Tsutomu Oyamada wrote: > In the present situation fail.

Re: [clamav-users] TTL of DNS recode

2016-11-25 Thread Simon Hobson
Tsutomu Oyamada wrote: > ClamAV update process started at Sat Nov 5 05:01:15 2016 > Using IPv6 aware code > Querying current.cvd.clamav.net > TTL: 1797 > Software version from DNS: 0.99.2 > main.cvd version from DNS: 57 > main.cvd is up to date (version: 57, sigs:

Re: [clamav-users] TTL of DNS recode

2016-11-28 Thread Simon Hobson
Tsutomu Oyamada wrote: > Our environment is a local mirror. > However, it does not matter. > > I wanted to know if there is the case that the DNS TXT of ClamAV have > not been updated for few days. > Could it be possibe? > Is this issue caused by the problem on our

Re: [clamav-users] Central management server?

2016-12-14 Thread Simon Hobson
robert k Wild wrote: > Can I install a clamav server and point all my clamav end users ie Mac > Linux windows to the server to get update definitions Yes. Setup your own mirror and point everything at it. > and can I manage my > clients from the server ie see if there

Re: [clamav-users] Scanning IMAP traffic without user credential storage

2017-07-28 Thread Simon Hobson
Beeblebrox wrote: >> ... If clamd finds something (it does happen), what's the plan? >> The message is *already* in the user's mail box, and I'd say it should >> *not* be there in your scenario, because the user can pick up the bad >> mail simply by connecting other than

Re: [clamav-users] Scanning IMAP traffic without user credential storage

2017-07-27 Thread Simon Hobson
Dave McMurtrie wrote: > The original poster doesn't mention which IMAP server he's using. As I read it, he's looking at "random users accessing random servers" - eg a user connecting his phone to the guest network and it then accessing Gmail. I really don't think it's

Re: [clamav-users] Apparently legitimate Paypal email disguises domain name in links - thus identified as likely phishing

2017-06-02 Thread Simon Hobson
Andy Schmidt wrote: > If Paypal expects their emails to be delivered, then the CONTENT of their > emails must not use phishing techniques. In my experience, most PayPal emails are a catalogue of the things people are told not to do ! Things like "click here to

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV Central Management tools

2018-10-18 Thread Simon Hobson
Robert Schetterer wrote: > Div monitors should be fine to code for such things > like monit, munin, xymon, icinga, nagios , zabbix etc Nagios has a plugin for it (someone's already done the coding), I used to use it at my last job. ___ clamav-users

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV reputation rating

2019-06-24 Thread Simon Hobson via clamav-users
Epicon Elysium via clamav-users wrote: > Does ClamAV support in enabling the reputation rating? Seems I couldn't find > any info when searching for it. There's nothing mentioned in the config file > as well. AIUI no, it doesn't have anything for that. However, a very common setup is use