Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV reputation rating

2019-06-27 Thread Simon Hobson via clamav-users
Epicon Elysium wrote: > There's no email traffic in/out. It's just application traffic through > WAF/ModSecurity. The files itself on the OS level are pretty static. So the > ClamAV is used to scan the filesystem. So basically, I think it's just > reputation rating on the files if any. I'm st

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 AMaViS

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 m

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 through your gateway. >

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 possible to do what he wan

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 check your account" come immediat

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 online run scans and lock

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 enviroment of querying DNS? >

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: 4218790, f-level: 60, builder:

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. What is failing ? Does you

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 find out if it has cha

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 ? https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLStaticVsDynamic https://www.gnu

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 strange. I use Mail.ap

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

2015-06-21 Thread Simon Hobson
M.hafez 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 email to it. If

Re: [clamav-users] Clamd and Systemd

2015-06-19 Thread Simon Hobson
Scott Kitterman wrote: >> Given that I wouldn't be bothered at all if SystemD was "just" an init >> system, it's all the other crap I want to keep out. Do you really think >> I'm going to allow a SystemD library (who's package description gives >> no clues about it's functions or intentions) onbo

Re: [clamav-users] Clamd and Systemd

2015-06-19 Thread Simon Hobson
Scott Kitterman 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 I want to

Re: [clamav-users] Clamd and Systemd

2015-06-18 Thread Simon Hobson
G.W. Haywood 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 dependencies that's trying to p

[clamav-users] Clamd and Systemd

2015-06-18 Thread Simon Hobson
I've been trying to upgrade a Debian Wheezy system to Jessie without allowing SystemD to sneak in. I've found that the Debian clamav-daemon package (but none of the others) depends on libsystemd0. I just wanted to check whether this is something that's in the upstream package, or something that

Re: [clamav-users] unsubscribe

2015-05-27 Thread Simon Hobson
Cmos35 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 ignored the email he wo

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

2015-02-25 Thread Simon Hobson
Marcio Fiorette 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 you install ClamAV as a

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

2015-02-23 Thread Simon Hobson
Daniel Spies 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] 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 wrote: >> Recipients may not trust the tags, but it *should* stop outbound >> spam/infected

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

2015-02-22 Thread Simon Hobson
Daniel Spies 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. Recipients may not trust the t

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

2014-05-29 Thread Simon Hobson
Scott Kitterman 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 problem with "using thi

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

2014-05-28 Thread Simon Hobson
Scott Kitterman 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 it's a local config

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

2014-05-28 Thread Simon Hobson
Marcello Lupo 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 exclude the message cont

Re: [clamav-users] clamav stops boot

2014-05-02 Thread Simon Hobson
Alain Zidouemba 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 using Debian, is new t

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

2014-04-02 Thread Simon Hobson
Shawn Webb 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 integrate it into o

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

2014-04-01 Thread Simon Hobson
Greg Folkert 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 have dropped

[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 th

Re: [clamav-users] Debian packaging

2014-02-12 Thread Simon Hobson
Greg Folkert 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. Actually it

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 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 hit unstable) and

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 Hobso

[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] 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 b

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 " then malicious users >can effective

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. -- Simo

Re: [clamav-users] Licensing & DLLs

2012-05-14 Thread Simon Hobson
happy to have someone ask them rather than make assumptions and/or get 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

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

2012-01-28 Thread Simon Hobson
o complete. 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

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

2012-01-25 Thread Simon Hobson
erver, how 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

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

2011-11-09 Thread Simon Hobson
ject them. Nonetheless, 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

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

2011-11-09 Thread Simon Hobson
n. Is it possible for ClamAV to flag that the message 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".

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

2011-06-22 Thread Simon Hobson
, try installing the package from Sid, or download the upstream package and install it manually. All of these have 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 de

Re: [clamav-users] daily database broken again

2011-03-01 Thread Simon Hobson
so sometimes think their attitude 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.

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

2010-09-28 Thread Simon Hobson
ck the contents. 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

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

2010-05-20 Thread Simon Hobson
rits in an intelligent way. Strike a reasonable balance between protection, 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.

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

2010-05-05 Thread Simon Hobson
required. As with any upgrades, it's always worth having 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

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

2010-05-04 Thread Simon Hobson
/log/clamav/* > > dpkg -i *.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 Hob

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

2010-05-03 Thread Simon Hobson
ilable at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.123.1530&rep=rep1&type=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

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

2010-05-03 Thread Simon Hobson
;it was inevitable **given the choices made**" and "ClamAV **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 - p

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

2010-05-03 Thread Simon Hobson
ne 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-

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

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Hobson
about administering 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

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

2010-04-25 Thread Simon Hobson
names, 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 -

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

2010-04-24 Thread Simon Hobson
k you for actually putting forward a reasoned argument rather 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** debat

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

2010-04-24 Thread Simon Hobson
ding the files it looks 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 compr

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

2010-04-24 Thread Simon Hobson
but other than that, why 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.

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

2010-04-24 Thread Simon Hobson
fact that they misused the victims actions to cause harm rather than going and directly causing 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 V

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

2010-04-24 Thread Simon Hobson
ail shouldn't 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 -

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

2010-04-23 Thread Simon Hobson
ing any more updates" 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. _

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

2010-04-23 Thread Simon Hobson
ome expectation that it wouldn't be artificially crippled by some outside influence before he got around to upgrading it. -- 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] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-04-23 Thread Simon Hobson
ny) on the ethics of issuing a kill signal to older software. But it's 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

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-22 Thread Simon Hobson
bility and consequences if they continue to ignore 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

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
s to the older software. So my preference would be simply that they "did nothing" to my software. If they want to stop supporting 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.magpiesnestpubl

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

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
> rm -f /var/log/clamav/* > > dpkg -i *.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 Glad

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

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
running affected software. If any project I *am* involved 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 -

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

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
te aside, there have been cases (one was local-ish) where there's been a "mix up" (for want of a better polite expression) and a contractor has knocked the wrong house down. It usually results in serious compensation - and some rather ne

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
ople who have 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.

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
The **ONLY** defence I can think of is that they assumed 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. --

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

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
- you know, "yes I did steal their telly, but they should have upgraded their locks like I pretended I'd told them to and then I wouldn't have done it". -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
fected by this thought you got it 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. ___ Help us b

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
uot;Whoops, I guess old versions can't handle 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:/

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

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
here was no other 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

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
r. If you want to use that one, it's more like 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.magpiesnestpublishi

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Hobson
. AND, it was not the only option available to them - so there isn't even any defence of it being absolutely necessary "for the public good". -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short storie

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-19 Thread Simon Hobson
ld one. Being under an open licence, this one 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 Ch

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-19 Thread Simon Hobson
t version Apple provide I don't know - whilst I've run Xserves, I wasn't using the mail on them and it was some time ago. AFAIK, Apple do push updates to such third party packages with Software Update - as far as the user is concerned, this is an Apple supplied package and Apple

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-19 Thread Simon Hobson
past 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 C

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-19 Thread Simon Hobson
I can see how it probably looked 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

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-19 Thread Simon Hobson
en part 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. --

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-19 Thread Simon Hobson
ption, but it wasn't the only one. -- 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. ___ Hel

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

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
with mine). And I do actually contribute to a number of FOSS projects - 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:

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
;t mean I like all of it. > 3) I can accept that software will go out of support - but I never expected a Miscrosoft-esque remote shutdown. You should have expected it 6 months ago when the announcement was made. Well I could have if I'd seen that - but that ground's been covered

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
So ClamAV as a package won't silently 'not work' for the safety 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 probl

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
se threads have sounded like for those of us "outside the church". 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 - sho

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
he old vehicles off the owners drives without even ringing the doorbell, and take them off to the crusher ? They have a right, 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. T

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
don't hurt themselves - it's long way down off a high horse. -- 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

2010-04-17 Thread Simon Hobson
aise it. But since someone else has, and you've poo-poo'd that as well ... -- 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

2010-04-17 Thread Simon Hobson
7;ve already said several times, YES I HAVE AND YES THAT IS WHAT I'VE DONE 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,

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread Simon Hobson
nsible for it, because free or not, your a fhucking criminal that want your hands cutting off and stuffing up your arhsehole. Oh dear, you started off so well, that sort of language does not help your argument - in fact it simply makes it look like a rant from someone with a lack

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
break from updates, than I have had problems from not updating. In that respect, even with this issue, it's not been too bad a return from the policy decisions I've taken. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ fo

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
Yes, I've learned that commercial companies don't have a monopoly on these things ! I suppose I could just copy the guys running the Windows servers - and just configure all the systems to automatically install any and every update automatically. And then just fix things as they break - h

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

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
only server I've got - hopefully I won't have to do a bare 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 t

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
difference - I doubt I'm alone. Jason Bertoch 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.

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

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
e's anything new to be said. Francis Stevens wrote: It is possible 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

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
ersions 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.magpiesn

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

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
#x27;;s like when others have to pick up what they were doing from a cold start. And then of course, there's an element of "which language" ? It's one thing if I can just hit "make clean ; make" and it all works - but when it doesn't - then being able to at least

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
f the day I've been forced to detect no virus's. Now I'm only detecting the ones known about up till yesterday. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
x27;ve disabled freshclam and rolled back the database to yesterdays version. 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 - poet

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
hs ago - it was sprung 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. __

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

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Hobson
shit like this happens it suddenly gets harder to justify OSS when one of your vendors does exactly what you accuse 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

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