Re: [clamav-users] exclude-dir with clamdscan

2018-05-15 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
--- Begin Message --- Hi there, On Tue, 15 May 2018, Stefan Schumacher wrote: I would like to use clamdscan to scan an entire server but exclude sys, proc and dev. mail6:~$ >>> cat testfile /etc/perl/ mail6:~$ >>> clamdscan -f testfile /etc/perl: OK --- SCAN SUMMARY ---

[clamav-users] Curiosity.

2019-04-02 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, Trawling the logs (sad, I know, but I do it), I noticed this: 8<-- Received: from clammail.vrt.sourcefire.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.clamav.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B166D18D633; Wed, 20 Feb 2019

Re: [clamav-users] rpm files question [was: ClamAV 0.101.2 announcement?]

2019-03-29 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, Micah Snyder wrote: This won't help you right now, but our team has been discussing publishing ClamAV on Linux using Snapcraft at the time of each release. Snapcraft sounds like it may be a good option to make ClamAV accessible faster. Would you, and others

Re: [clamav-users] connect clamscan output to journal with systemd-cat

2019-04-03 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Wed, 3 Apr 2019, Kretschmer, Jens wrote: I would like to redirect the output of clamscan to the journal ... man logger Do you have any idea what could be causing the issue? It's not clear to me which system you're using, but try man cron -- 73, Ged.

Re: [clamav-users] looking for solution for proxy of clamd and redirecting clamdscan to go to remote clamd running on another server

2019-04-04 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 4 Apr 2019, Annette (impersonating Tom Brady) wrote: I have tried using the tcpsocket parameter on the clamd.conf. I have [two] different clamd instances running on different servers. While I can get the clamdscan to talk to the local (on the same server) clamd instance, I

Re: [clamav-users] Installing question

2019-03-28 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hello, On Thu, 28 Mar 2019, MOHAMED OMAR MAKRAM wrote: I've had this for few months. The only thing i was able to do is to pay for virus protection but it is so expensive. Is there a way to find those hidden files? Do you think they are in the db or in the files? I am moving out to another

Re: [clamav-users] Scan very slow

2019-04-07 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sun, 7 Apr 2019, Maarten Broekman wrote: Given that the PhishTank signatures, specifically, have been causing the performance issues, no. It's not unreasonable to want to pull them, and only them, out. Having them in a separate db file would be highly beneficial to those of us

Re: [clamav-users] Procedure for Correct Action

2019-04-06 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sat, 6 Apr 2019, Robert F. Poe wrote: I need clarification for the proper action to take after finding viruses and malware. I'll try not to be misled by your questions. I use ClamAv Virus Scanner (or Clamscan) to scan my server on a weekly basis. I have the Virus Scanner via

Re: [clamav-users] Scan very slow

2019-04-08 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hello again, On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, Arnaud Jacques wrote: Le 07/04/2019 ? 18:18, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users a ?crit?: > > grep -a '^Phishtank.Phishing' daily.cld | cut -d':' -f1 > > ~/phishtank.ign2 This is not optimized : Phishtank.Phishing are loaded in memory. Then ph

Re: [clamav-users] Are signatures for Windows only?

2019-03-25 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, J.R. wrote: ... I've seen an increasing amount of people posting about their non-windows platforms that are scanning their *entire* system ... People have been doing that kind of thing for years, I'm not sure how much it's increasing. Most of the time it seems

Re: [clamav-users] Issue with clamav logical signature generation

2019-02-25 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 25 Feb 2019, Al Varnell wrote: ... the strings you provided appear to contain an extra digit. I thought hex strings always contain an even number of digits? Just as decimal strings are strings composed of decimal digits and can be any length, hexadecimal strings are strings

Re: [clamav-users] Database updated over unencrypted connection?

2019-03-15 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 15 Mar 2019, Franky Van Liedekerkewrote: Certifcates cost nothing ... CPU cycles don't. -- 73, Ged. ___ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us

Re: [clamav-users] Slow reload

2019-03-21 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 21 Mar 2019, J.R. wrote: > The simplest way to achieve this right now would probably be to use > two servers for scanning ... Or just have the mail server send a 'tempfail' and the remote mail server will retry sending usually within 10 minutes... The OP specifically

Re: [clamav-users] Slow reload

2019-03-20 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Micah Snyder wrote: On 3/20/19, 10:04 AM, "clamav-users on behalf of Bowie Bailey" wrote: On 3/20/2019 8:42 AM, Alessandro Vesely via clamav-users wrote: On Tue 19/Mar/2019 15:35:39 +0100 Bowie Bailey wrote: ClamAV is taking about 2 1/2 minutes to reload its

Re: [clamav-users] virus/malware risk level

2019-05-30 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 30 May 2019, WagdeZ wrote Using clamav... Is there any way to find out what is the risk level (score/priority/...) of the detected virus/malware? The question is rather vague. In many cases the signature name gives some sort of clue to what the signature is about, so if

Re: [clamav-users] clamd using ~1GB memory on Debian Stretch

2019-05-13 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 13 May 2019, Avinash Sonawane wrote: e.g. I am expecting an email at 6 PM. I don't mind clamd taking that much of a memory *at* 6 PM and then release it. I find it absolutely inconvenient to having to forgo ~1GB memory since the morning. As I said, a poor bargain. The

Re: [clamav-users] Duplicate database, 525 minutes to complete, >90% CPU

2019-05-21 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Tue, 21 May 2019, Clark Dunson wrote: ... /usr/bin/clamscan -o -i -r --quiet / ... Don't do that. Search the list archives for explanations. -- 73, Ged. ___ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV reputation rating

2019-06-28 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Al Varnell wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 07:51 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users wrote: On Jun 26, 2019, at 7:25 PM, Epicon Elysium via clamav-users mailto:clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>> wrote: We're building a PaaS where everything runs on Linux. As

Re: [clamav-users] Disable official database

2019-08-24 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: I mean, it's possible not to download the official definitions and just point at a custom file right? No idea. Haven't tried it. If you can, it seems like it would be a security hole. The code seems to be saying that it wants to

Re: [clamav-users] Disable official database

2019-08-24 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, azu...@pobox.sk wrote: is it possible to disable official virus database? I would like to use only custom database. Thanks for info. A quick look at the code in libclamav/readdb.c suggests to me that this won't be very straightforward. The name of the 'daily'

Re: [clamav-users] Disable official database

2019-08-25 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, Kees Theunissen wrote: On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, azu...@pobox.sk wrote: is it possible to disable official virus database? I would like to use only custom database. Thanks for info. ... I didn't need virus databases at all ... (I didn't even test if I could start

Re: [clamav-users] Port number

2019-08-27 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Good morning, Alpesh Thakare via clamav-users wrote: Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:53:30 +0530 What is the port number used by ClamAV. Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:58:34 +0530 3310 port what is this ? Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:48:09 +0530 What is the clamd service port in centos. Could you

Re: [clamav-users] OnAccessExcludePath

2019-08-30 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 29 Aug 2019, Frans de Boer wrote: OnAccessExludePath STRING, where string denotes a directory. Does this also imply "that directory and anything below that", or just the directory only? .../docs/html/UserManual/OnAccess.html -- 73, Ged.

Re: [clamav-users] Still Baffled: cli_scanxz: decompress file size exceeds limits

2019-08-30 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Michael Newman via clamav-users wrote: I’m still baffled trying to figure out what is causing this error. It's not an error. As it says, it's a warning. You're probably worrying about nothing but it's usually as well to find out exactly what's happening.

Re: [clamav-users] OnAccessExcludePath

2019-08-30 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Frans de Boer wrote: On 30-08-19 10:26, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2019, Frans de Boer wrote: OnAccessExludePath STRING, where string denotes a directory. Does this also imply "that directory and anything below that"

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-08-31 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, Henrik K wrote: The reload bug has been known for years, even has a ready patch. https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10979 But nothing you can do about it... Well not quite nothing, since you can download the source, apply the patch, and rebuild

Re: [clamav-users] Question regarding Metasploit signatures

2019-08-31 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Manna, Mohammed via clamav-users wrote: What I can see that ClamAV cannot always successfully detect reverse shell type of files (built using Metasploit msfvenom). And also, if the file is covered using a pseudo extension e.g. test.exe.txt When I was comparing

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-08-31 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, Henrik K wrote: ... If I encountered a bug like that on some project that I'm maintaining, I would be shamed not to rapidly fix it. If you called it a limitation I could agree, but I guess it's working as designed. I'd call it an issue rather than a fault in

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-08-31 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, J.R. via clamav-users wrote: ... I wouldn't call the current design a "bug"... It works as intended. +1 However it would be nice if a fresh DB could be parsed & loaded, then swapped, to prevent service interruption. That's exactly what the patch in #10979

Re: [clamav-users] freshclam incremental update

2019-08-31 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, Birger Birger via clamav-users wrote: have tried that but download of daily.cvd with freshclam still stops at 99% and never completes downloading daily and icremental with wget works fine If others don't have the same issue, and you can download the files OK

Re: [clamav-users] Question regarding Metasploit signatures

2019-08-31 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, J.R. via clamav-users wrote: If the virus pattern is in one of the database files, then you are alerted... If it's not, then no alert... That's how every antivirus works... There's a bit more to it than that. Some detection is based on other characteristics,

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-08-31 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, Henrik K wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2019, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote: Well not quite nothing, since you can download the source, apply the patch, and rebuild ClamAV. Sure but it's not reality for majority of users.. While it's good that people try it out

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-08-31 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, Henrik K wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 04:48:54PM +0100, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote: The final responsibility of implementing and testing the issue is still that of the ClamAV team. Agreed. You are really making this much more complex and "

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-01 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sun, 1 Sep 2019, Thomas Barth via clamav-users wrote: Am 2019-08-31 20:35, schrieb G.W. Haywood via clamav-users: That's exactly what the patch in #10979 does. ... And where can I find this patch? If you navigate to https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10979

Re: [clamav-users] freshclam incremental update

2019-09-01 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hello again, On Sun, 1 Sep 2019, Birger Birger via clamav-users wrote: Deleted the mirrors.dat file and tried a new freshclam with result: getpatch: can't download daily-25559.cdiff from db.se.clamav.net Incrental update failed, trying to update daily.cvd Can see that in /var/lib/clamav/

Re: [clamav-users] Fwd: Fwd: freshclam incremental update

2019-09-03 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Birger Birger via clamav-users wrote: Sep 3 10:43:22 zentyal kernel: [266193.080510] zentyal-firewall drop IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.1.30 DST=104.16.218.84 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=52480 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=51666 DPT=80 WINDOW=9057 RES=0x00 ACK FIN

Re: [clamav-users] Automated submissions to third party databases?

2019-09-03 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Henrik K wrote: General comment: Using any third party rules with ClamAV is a gamble, but Agreed. In fact I'd go further than that. Relying on something like ClamAV is a gamble. If there's a new 0-day just out, there may be no chance of spotting it at all.

Re: [clamav-users] Automated submissions to third party databases?

2019-09-03 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Arnaud Jacques via clamav-users wrote: On Sep 2, 2019, at 05:11, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote: > ... I'm flagging up quite a few messages which are guaranteed spam, > but which aren't in any of the third-party databases that I'm using > ... My m

Re: [clamav-users] Automated submissions to third party databases?

2019-09-03 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi Joel, On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: On Mon, 2 Sep 2019, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: >> On Sep 2, 2019, at 05:11, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users ... wrote: >> >> ... I'm flagging up quite a few messages which are guaranteed spam, >>

Re: [clamav-users] Am I allowed to use yara rules?

2019-09-03 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 2 Sep 2019, Thomas Barth via clamav-users wrote: today I got informed that I should not use the yara rules. They have major issues with clamav 1.0.1, ie memory leaks and complete failure of clamav. I see nothing in which refers to such an issue in the ClamAV Bugzilla. My

Re: [clamav-users] Automated submissions to third party databases?

2019-09-03 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi Joel, On Mon, 2 Sep 2019, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: On Sep 2, 2019, at 05:11, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users ... wrote: ... I'm flagging up quite a few messages which are guaranteed spam, but which aren't in any of the third-party databases that I'm using ... My milter can very easily

Re: [clamav-users] Scanning on Mac without installation

2019-08-23 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Dexter Rivera via clamav-users wrote: On 8/22/19, 9:19 AM, "Eric Tykwinski" wrote: ... Something like ansible? Use ansible's homebrew module to install ClamAV, run a scan, than use the module again to uninstall. That's exactly the scenario I'd like to have.

Re: [clamav-users] Disable official database

2019-08-26 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, Kris Deugau wrote: The only constant is that there must be at least one signature database, even if it's a trivial hash database with one signature that matches on an empty file. AFAICT the signature database file doesn't even need to have any signatures in it;

Re: [clamav-users] Disable official database

2019-08-26 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, Kris Deugau wrote: G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote: 6. The same, using a database directory containing just an empty file: mail6:~/src/net/mail/clamav-0.101.4/test$ >>> ls -l /etc/mail/clamav/empty/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 25 10:25 e

[clamav-users] Automated submissions to third party databases?

2019-09-02 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, If you've been paying even scant attention to the list mail you'll know that I've been doing some testing, particularly of clamd, when it's used for scanning mail. This is something of side issue, but I'll throw it into the pot to see if anything comes of it. The testing that I'm

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-01 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi Joel, On Sun, 1 Sep 2019, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: Alright. I think we’ve beat the proverbial dead horse here. ... I don't think anybody's beating anything here Joel. Just we users, discussing, on the users' list, ways of dealing with an issue. On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, G.W. Haywood

Re: [clamav-users] Fwd: freshclam incremental update

2019-09-02 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 2 Sep 2019, Birger Birger via clamav-users wrote: I have a Vigor 2926 router between computer and internet. https://www.switchnetservices.co.uk/draytek-zero-day/ -- 73, Ged. ___ clamav-users mailing list

Re: [clamav-users] Fwd: freshclam incremental update

2019-09-02 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hello again, On Mon, 2 Sep 2019, Birger Birger via clamav-users wrote: Mon Sep 2 11:05:27 2019 -> nonblock_recv: recv timing out (30 secs) Mon Sep 2 11:05:27 2019 -> WARNING: getfile: Download interrupted: Operation now in progress (IP: 104.16.219.84) Looks like a network issue at your

Re: [clamav-users] freshclam incremental update

2019-08-31 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, Birger Birger via clamav-users wrote: Den lör 31 aug. 2019 20:35 G.W. Haywood skrev: On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, Birger Birger via clamav-users wrote: ... download of daily.cvd with freshclam still stops at 99% In the last few days I've seen freshclam remove a few

[clamav-users] Pure Perl milter for clamd.

2019-08-22 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, Anyone interested in a pure Perl ClamAV milter? Over on clamav-devel I've posted about a milter that I'm working on and which I'd be pleased to see getting some more exercise: https://lists.gt.net/clamav/devel/76575 I'd be happy to help with installation if you're not very familiar

Re: [clamav-users] Questions about ClamAV installers

2019-08-28 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Wed, 28 Aug 2019, Scott A. Wozny via clamav-users wrote: I’m looking at installing Clam on my CentOS 7 servers ... Sorry, but I have to ask :) Why? sites offering install tutorials recommend installing H. Sites with tutorials. I guess I avoid them. clamav-server

Re: [clamav-users] False Positive for Txt.Coinminer.Generic-7132166-0

2019-08-27 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Brian Cole via clamav-users wrote: ... we are seeing ClamAV think that CoinMiner virus exists in ... /var/log/sid_changes.log ... Would it not make more sense to exclude such files from your scans? -- 73, Ged. ___

Re: [clamav-users] Automated submissions to third party databases?

2019-09-04 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi Joel, On Wed, 4 Sep 2019, G.W. Haywood wrote: ... some junk mails aren't being detected by clamd, even though there are valid signatures in the database that are supposed to match them. I guess you have the two files which I attached. You can see below what happens when I scan them using

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-04 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On 9/4/19, 1:40 PM, Thomas Barth via wrote: > Why not using half of the cores to also reduce the loading time? Many > years ago when I used eMule for downloading big files, I was so > fascinated by the download mechanism: one big file, many download > sources to get the file

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-06 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, Reio Remma via clamav-users wrote: I guess many of us are just running too old hardware. :) Here's a comparison between my mail server and identical config running in a VM. Sep  6 09:41:06 mail clamd[31441]: Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav Sep  6 09:44:05

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam to only pull safebrowsing.cvd

2019-09-06 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, Brent Clark via clamav-users wrote: We have project to have a to have freshclam *only* pull / update safebrowsing.cvd what I find is, when I run my custom freshclam.conf file it still pulls daily.cvd, main.cvd, bytecode.cvd Anyone know how I can switch this

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-13 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users wrote: https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10979#c19 This patch applies to the current head of dev/0.102 ... If the development version is a step too far, the two files which I posted on September 10th implement

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-13 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users wrote: One thing we could do is have clamd "start" before loading the database. That is to say that it would immediately begin listening on the unix/tcp socket for requests and fork into the background so as not to block

Re: [clamav-users] Running round in circles here.

2019-09-09 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Hal MacLean via clamav-users wrote: ... been using ClamAV to help secure a few Moodle systems and this has been working fine for years. It seems this year to have been causing a problem. Whatever the reason, it's fixable. There have been a few issues long past,

Re: [clamav-users] Running round in circles here.

2019-09-09 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hello again, On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote: telnet localhost 3311 That should of course have been telnet localhost 3313 to connect to the port given in the configuration. -- 73, Ged. ___ clamav-users mailing list

Re: [clamav-users] Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: freshclam incremental update

2019-09-11 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Wed, 11 Sep 2019, Birger Birger via clamav-users wrote: Now it seems the firewall is stopping freshclam to download updates. That's what I told you in my Sept 3rd reply to you. Any ideas? Stop the firewall from dropping the packets? -- 73, Ged.

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-14 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi Micah, On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) wrote: I'm sorry, Ged... Apology accepted. :) I'm now running the development (0.102) version of clamd, patched with Mr. Wu's patch, alongside two version 101.4 clamd daemons (an unpatched one, and one with the patch that I posted on

Re: [clamav-users] clamAV w/o using original virus databases?

2019-09-09 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, cla...@script-test.de wrote: ... is it possible to run clamAV without using the official virus databases? i tried it but my clamd wont start because the daily-DB is missing. ... Short answer is yes, a longer answer is this has been discussed very recently on

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-09-05 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 5 Sep 2019, Thomas Barth via clamav-users wrote: freshclam just downloads the standard databases to keep them fresh. In /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf you can set the check interval. That s ok. # Check for new database 24 times a day Checks 24 Good so far. But it s

Re: [clamav-users] Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: freshclam incremental update

2019-09-05 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 5 Sep 2019, Birger Birger via clamav-users wrote: This might provide additional information. /usr/bin/freshclam *Trying to retrieve CVD header of http://%s/%s %cremote_cvdhead: write failed %cremote_cvdhead: Error while reading CVD header from %s The '%c' and '%s'

Re: [clamav-users] Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: freshclam incremental update

2019-09-11 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Wed, 11 Sep 2019, Birger Birger via clamav-users wrote: Den ons 11 sep. 2019 11:35G.W. Haywood via clamav-users skrev: On Wed, 11 Sep 2019, Birger Birger via clamav-users wrote: Now it seems the firewall is stopping freshclam to download updates. Stop the firewall from dropping

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV Daemon Log - Filepath of the infected file

2019-09-19 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Jorge Martins wrote: I have ClamAV Daemon installed, and if clamdscan detects something I get an entry log on the /var/log/clamav/clamav.log file, but that entry does not identify the infected file, it only shows something like this: Thu Sep 19 16:42:24 2019 ->

Re: [clamav-users] OnAccessExcludePath being ignored.

2019-09-26 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 26 Sep 2019, CROFT Ian wrote: But when I put an EICAR test txt file in /var/log/test.txt it is getting picked up by the OnAccess scanner. I have tried ^/var/log/ and ^/var/log/* - same issue the test.txt is still picked up by the OnAccess scanner when it should in my mind

Re: [clamav-users] OnAccessExcludePath being ignored.

2019-09-26 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hello again, On Thu, 26 Sep 2019, CROFT Ian via clamav-users wrote: ... making sure they are all strings looks better now in most cases. So I now have these :- OnAccessIncludePath /var/log ( Only added to include to get around the bug previously mentioned ) OnAccessIncludePath /var

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.102.0 Release Candidate is now available

2019-09-27 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, I don't think this needs to go to clamav-devel. On Fri, 27 Sep 2019, Franky Van Liedekerke via clamav-users wrote: ... why would clamonacc during compilation need libcurl? And ... https://blog.clamav.net/2019/08/clamav-01013-security-patch-release-and.html I can't justify newer

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.102.0 Release Candidate is now available

2019-09-27 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 27 Sep 2019, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 27.09.19 15:21, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote: ... But it could seem a little strange that your manager might insist that you use out of date utilities for your security systems... :) redhat version of libcurl

Re: [clamav-users] RHEL ScanonAccess includepaths

2019-09-24 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, CROFT Ian wrote: We have a need to have OnAccessScanning on our RHEL servers but with some path exclusions. May I ask why? So as I read the manuals etc it seems I have to use the OnAccessIncludePath rather than the OnAccessMountPath. I guess that's right

Re: [clamav-users] OnAccess renders system unusable in ~24h

2019-09-24 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Tim Stubbs wrote: I am running clamd with OnAccess enabled, however its causing the load on the systems to make them almost unusable within about 24hours. This may be true, but I'd want to know that the suspicion is justified (and front and centre I personally

Re: [clamav-users] Setting up logrotation

2019-09-24 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Lars Åhman wrote: Im running clamav as a daemon on a fedora and basically keep it running 24/7 except for an occasional update every now and then. It isn't clear to me from what you've written that you know what the ClamAV daemon (clamd) actually does. Do you?

Re: [clamav-users] OnAccess renders system unusable in ~24h

2019-09-24 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hello again, On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Tim Stubbs wrote: What kinds of threats do you care about? If for example you're not expecting your Linux boxes to be attacked by Windows malware you could reduce the size of the ClamAV databases very significantly which might improve scanning performance.

Re: [clamav-users] Question

2019-10-04 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, alex mc via clamav-users wrote: ... lately I've been looking for the clamav antivirus code but I don't know why I can't find it, could you send it to me or tell me where to find it? ... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- 73, Ged.

Re: [clamav-users] Determine if ClamAV is looking for a specific piece of ransomware (Linux)

2019-11-04 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Scott Shannon via clamav-users wrote: I’m attempting to determine if a specific ransomware, Friedex.d, a variant of Iencrypt, is being scanned for ... It isn't clear to me if you have a ClamAV installation or not. If you do, you can presumably get a copy of the

Re: [clamav-users] LibClamAV Error: cli_scangpt: could not determine sector size

2019-11-10 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, Michael Newman via clamav-users wrote: On Nov 11, 2019, at 00:00,G.W. Haywood wrote: Exactly what do you do in order to obtain this message? Does it appear in a terminal session, in a log file,…? I run clamscan from a bash script with this command:

Re: [clamav-users] Clamav error using YARA

2019-11-10 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sun, 10 Nov 2019, Philippe Lefèvre wrote: Since some time (less than a month I think) I now get this message when I launch a directory scan. LibClamAV Error: yyerror(): /var/lib/clamav/rfxn.yara line 8955 undefined identifier

Re: [clamav-users] Clamav error using YARA

2019-11-11 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, Philippe Lefèvre wrote: # grep -n is__elf /var/lib/clamav/rfxn.yara 9112:    is__elf and all of ($s*) Maybe this will help: https://www.rfxn.com/downloads/maldetect-current.tar.gz 8<--

Re: [clamav-users] clamd onaccess scanning NFS

2019-11-11 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, Mark Parker via clamav-users wrote: On 11/11/2019 12:05 PM, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, Mark Parker via clamav-users wrote: ... need onaccess scanning but .. clamd .. doesn't have permissions to view a user's home directory

Re: [clamav-users] clamd onaccess scanning NFS

2019-11-11 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, Mark Parker via clamav-users wrote: ... need onaccess scanning but .. clamd .. doesn't have permissions to view a user's home directory contents. Am I missing something? Group read? -- 73, Ged. ___ clamav-users

Re: [clamav-users] A better zip bomb

2019-11-09 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Markus Kolb via clamav-users wrote: Am 08.11.2019 11:58, schrieb G.W. Haywood via clamav-users: > On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Arnaud Jacques wrote: > ...Brent wrote: [...] > > clamscan --alert-exceeds-max=yes --max-recursion=5 --max-ziptypercg=5M > > /va

[clamav-users] Administrivia.

2019-11-09 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, Many people use aliases for mailing list correspondence, so that the bots which scrape list archives for email addresses and then send spam to those addresses get the aliases and not the real addresses. It's a simple matter to permit mail to the aliases from only the list servers, and

Re: [clamav-users] strace - select(13, [12], NULL, NULL, NULL) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) <0.000017>

2019-11-07 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, J.R. via clamav-users wrote: Which brought clamd back to life and the system load returned to normal. no idea is this is a OS bug, a ClamAV bug or some kind of user error, any help here will be appreciated. What version of ClamAV? What OS? What customization /

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV not listed at VirusTotal anymore

2019-11-06 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users wrote: On Nov 6, 2019, at 9:04 AM, MAYER Hans via clamav-users wrote: I uploaded a file for testing at VirusTotal just now. I am wondering that ClamAV is not listed ... hours earlier it was. I just uploaded a file, and I

Re: [clamav-users] unexplainable tar behaviour

2019-10-31 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 31 Oct 2019, J.R. via clamav-users wrote: Is ClamAV scanning the archive as-is, then additionally (hopefully) decompressing it and scanning individual files? man clamd.conf (search for 'ScanArchive') Is there a way to debug with more info to see exactly what is going on

Re: [clamav-users] unexplainable tar behaviour

2019-10-30 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Wed, 30 Oct 2019, Steffen Sledz wrote: On 29.10.19 15:10, Alan Stern wrote: Try bisection... That makes things even more confusing. I don't see what's confusing about this. The match is just an expression. It isn't magic. You could do just the same thing from the command

Re: [clamav-users] How to boost clamav? Reloading database results in a talking timeout?

2019-10-30 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi Reio, On Mon, 28 Oct 2019, Reio Remma via clamav-users wrote: ... I've been running a patched 101.4 for a few weeks now and unfortunately I'm observing a memory leak from the multithreaded database reloads. I'm observing clamd memory usage going up when the new database loads ... The

Re: [clamav-users] Logwatch not showing "Viruses detected"

2019-10-30 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Wed, 30 Oct 2019, Robert Kudyba wrote: This might be off topic to the list. We have Clam AV running on Fedora 30 with clamav-milter, clamav-0.101.4-1.fc30.x86_64, and sendmail. On one server the logwatch emails do send a daily recap as desired ... ... On the other server, logwatch

Re: [clamav-users] Problem running virus scanner: code=999, category=cannot-execute, action=tempfail

2019-11-13 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, Andrew Watkins via clamav-users wrote: I get the following error a few times a day for a while, so I thought I would look into it. I am using mimedefang to send mail to clamd and it works fine, but at random point of the day I get the error:

Re: [clamav-users] Problem running virus scanner: code=999, category=cannot-execute, action=tempfail

2019-11-13 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, Andrew Watkins via clamav-users wrote: On 11/13/19 10:33 AM, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote: Perhaps clamd is reloading its databases when you see this. Depending on configuration and the host performance it can take anywhere between a few tens of seconds

Re: [clamav-users] Html.Malware.Agent-7380889-0 false positive on Apache files?

2019-11-14 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, Christina Qian wrote: Thank you very much for your reply. I just realized that I was on the wrong thread though. I meant to ask the reason for the alarms below, or at least to confirm it's a false alarm, so I can just exclude the files. Do you or anybody on the

Re: [clamav-users] clamav

2019-11-14 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 14 Nov 2019, ALMOKBEL, RAWAN wrote: Good Day! Well it's been raining here for weeks, but good day to you too! :) Does clamav scan embedded virus and malicious inside files ? If you mean archive files the question has already been answered well, but I would add that it

Re: [clamav-users] clamav

2019-11-14 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Thu, 14 Nov 2019, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote: ClamAV also can't deal with files bigger than 4 GB. This prevents it from scanning some videos, DVD-size ISOs, etc. The usefulness of scanning such files is debatable, but you can split large files into pieces and scan the

Re: [clamav-users] ERROR: Malformed database -> Closing the main socket.

2019-11-17 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, Jim Ward via clamav-users wrote: I poked around based on the 'Disable Official Database' thread previously mentioned. Clam wanted nothing to do with either missing or zero length main and daily files. However digging in to syslogs, I found this interesting

Re: [clamav-users] ERROR: Malformed database -> Closing the main socket.

2019-11-18 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Mon, 18 Nov 2019, Jim Ward via clamav-users wrote: I've taken a trip to the swap shop. Added 2G and we seem to be working at this point. ... Like I said, logic, not magic. Good luck. :) -- 73, Ged. ___ clamav-users mailing list

Re: [clamav-users] Clamav error using YARA

2019-11-11 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hello again, On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, Philippe Lefèvre wrote: thanks for your post Ged. You're very welcome. :) ... it seems that neither Clamav nor Maldet installed on my Debian box have the right rfxn.* files I'm not familiar with these programs but I would like to understand if clamav is

Re: [clamav-users] ERROR: Malformed database -> Closing the main socket.

2019-11-16 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
be useful to see md5sums for each file. Third: Check back in the mailing archives of this list for this post: Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:38:16 +0100 (BST) From: G.W. Haywood via clamav-users To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Disable official database Try starting clamd

Re: [clamav-users] clamav

2019-11-16 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2019, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote: ClamAV also can't deal with files bigger than 4 GB. This prevents it from scanning some videos, DVD-size

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