Re: AW: [Clamav-users] virus submission problem

2004-09-29 Thread Trog
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:35, Steffen Heil wrote: Hi I have a serious issue with the current way virus samples are submitted. Right now, many viruses, such as the currently-spreading jpeg virus (see http://www.easynews.com/virus.txt) are detected by 0.80rc# or by some CVS version. But we

AW: [Clamav-users] virus submission problem

2004-09-29 Thread Steffen Heil
Hi There are a significant amount of other methods that will generally detect an infected email. Approximately 3.8% of infected emails ever reach the stage where the virus scanners I use get called into action, and Clam hasn't missed one of those yet. Check for other email exploits before

AW: [Clamav-users] virus submission problem

2004-09-29 Thread Steffen Heil
Hi The main types of checks that should be done are regarding the composition of the emails. For example, the ones you mention above, clsid and boundary checks, will stop a proportional amount of virus mails from getting any further. Okay... already doing so. Then there are others, like

AW: [Clamav-users] virus submission problem

2004-09-28 Thread Steffen Heil
Hi I have a serious issue with the current way virus samples are submitted. Right now, many viruses, such as the currently-spreading jpeg virus (see http://www.easynews.com/virus.txt) are detected by 0.80rc# or by some CVS version. But we can't be expected to run those on production servers.