Re: [Declude.Virus] Outlook 'CR' Vulnerability from Thunderbird ???

2005-08-12 Thread Matt
ILITYOLBOUNDARYSPACEGAP This only works with 2.0.6.14+. There are more that are listed when you log into your account on declude.com and go to the page for 2.0.6.16. All of the above were producing repeated false positives from multiple sources, and ones like OLCR were especially problematic.

Re: [Declude.Virus] Outlook 'CR' Vulnerability from Thunderbird ???

2005-08-11 Thread Matt
Microsoft has long since patched the flaw, though it can certainly cause parsing issues in virus scanners that could lead to missing the payloads due to a message that was improperly formatted. Matt David Dodell wrote: Had email from a company today (Photodex) rejected due to the Outlook

Re: [Declude.Virus] OT: e-mail headers

2005-08-04 Thread Matt
] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: PHP/4.3.8 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64 It appears that the first set is wrong and should be removed if possible. Matt System Administrator wrote: on 8/4/05 2:29 PM,

Re: [Declude.Virus] OT: e-mail headers

2005-08-04 Thread Matt
ff if you wish since it's the formatting that really matters here. Matt System Administrator wrote: We are developing an ecommerce web site but we are having problems with the e-mail associated with the buying experience. The e-mail message contains a text part and a base64 part. Dec

Re: [Declude.Virus] Patch Tuesday and graphic images

2005-07-12 Thread Matt
fact that it was previously reported that images were parsed by the Web browser before they were written to the cache where an antivirus program could scan them. That is hearsay until I see it in action though. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: Today is Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2005.

Re: [Declude.Virus] Declude using CBL to block users sending mail?????

2005-06-13 Thread Matt
dding something like Sniffer and reducing weights on such things I think is still the best overall solution. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: That's a good point, Matt. I glossed over analyzing the hops, but wouldn't Declude skip running any test with DYNA in the name if the message

Re: [Declude.Virus] Declude using CBL to block users sending mail?????

2005-06-13 Thread Matt
x27;s from headers when shared because those that might help out would often benefit from this information. Sometimes it doesn't really matter of course, and Doug did give enough information to figure this out, but the three received headers were confusing without a careful read. Matt

Re: [Declude.Virus] Declude using CBL to block users sending mail?????

2005-06-13 Thread Matt
sts, and the net result of this would be trapping more spam with fewer false positives if you weight things optimally. Matt Douglas Cohn wrote: My desktop IP was erroneously listed on CBL. It seems that declude is checking autheticated users sending mail for CBL and according to CBL this

Re: [Declude.Virus] viruses getting through

2005-06-08 Thread Matt
If you restart your server without first stopping IMail SMTP service, it will leak messages for several seconds.  Also, if you restart the IMail Queue Manager service it will steal messages from Declude.  Both situations can lead to messages being passed without headers. Matt Daniel Ivey

Re: [Declude.Virus] Banned Extensions Still Getting Through?

2005-06-06 Thread Matt
oming.  All encoding of file names should be decoded before any checks for extensions are made. Matt Paul Crouch wrote: Need some help for a part time sys admin!   Declude Virus/Junkmail Standard 2.0.6.16/F-prot. We have very limited bandwidth so have expanded the b

Re: [Declude.Virus] Second Scanner

2005-06-05 Thread Matt
egree of testing prior to launching new definitions as has been evidenced a couple of times, and of course it was developed originally for Linux. Matt Douglas Cohn wrote: Mcafee is a CPU HOG. Uses double the CPU of Fprot. I have a low powered machine and cannot even run Mcafee but fprot is no proble

Re: [Declude.Virus] MS05-16 Exploit

2005-05-31 Thread Matt
d most are never exploited in E-mail viruses, so there is probably no reason to not treat all of them the same.  I see no reason why virus scanners wouldn't detect the infected attachments once they were updated with definitions for known threats. Matt John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: Sin

Re: [Declude.Virus] EXITSCANONVIRUS

2005-05-29 Thread Matt
Thanks!  The grass is cut and the friends are already on the way over with beer and stuff to burn :) Matt Darin Cox wrote: Sounds good to me.  I tend to think of both virus and spam detection in the same breath, since I think they're stronger together than separate... bu

[Declude.Virus] Correction about Outlook Boundary Space Gap vulnerability

2005-05-29 Thread Matt
e headers for a spam campaign.  Here's an example of the offending code in every one of the 423 spams:     Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary= "=_NextPart_000_00C3_5E34EE5.81EF3A57" Note the space between the equals sign and the quote.  You can filter for this easily i

Re: [Declude.Virus] EXITSCANONVIRUS

2005-05-29 Thread Matt
pace is permitted, it is recommended that struc- tured fields, such as those containing addresses, limit folding to higher-level syntactic breaks. For address fields, it is recommended that such folding occur between addresses, after th

Re: [Declude.Virus] EXITSCANONVIRUS

2005-05-29 Thread Matt
the folding of headers by agents that do not otherwise understand the syntax of this field. For this to have been the vulnerability, the whitespace would have needed to have been within the quotes that defined the boundary and not before it. Matt Darin Cox wrote: Hi Matt,   I thi

Re: [Declude.Virus] EXITSCANONVIRUS

2005-05-29 Thread Matt
if not more important as the functionality to the product and the customer base as a whole. Matt Darin Cox wrote: Matt,   Point taken that it may no longer be a vulnerability.  So, call it something different, maybe just another type of spam test, but don't take it away.  They st

Re: [Declude.Virus] EXITSCANONVIRUS

2005-05-29 Thread Matt
any issues by not detecting it at this point.    http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20030820.html    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-040.mspx There are similar conditions for other vulnerabilities as well.  It was good to have them at the time, but now they

Re: [Declude.Virus] EXITSCANONVIRUS

2005-05-28 Thread Matt
hould only really be done if you can rely on the vulnerability checks to be accurate. Matt John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: It appears to be stopping when it finds a vulnerability and does not get scanned for virus. John T eServices For You -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [Declude.Virus] Question concerning SKIPEXT and GDI+ Vulnerability detection

2005-05-07 Thread Matt
Thank you! Matt Panda Consulting S.A. Luis Alberto Arango wrote: Short answer: MSFT GDIPlus.DLL Vulnerability detection will run with our without SKIPEXT. Long Answer: The GDI vulnerability was added to Declude in version 1.8 -September 2004- and some corrections were added in version

Re: [Declude.Virus] Question concerning SKIPEXT and GDI+ Vulnerability detection

2005-05-06 Thread Matt
ld also be fine with me. Thanks, Matt David Franco-Rocha [ Declude ] wrote: From the source it looks like the JPG woul be scanned for the GDIPlus vulnerability regardless of these other directives. David Franco-Rocha Declude Technical Support - Original Message ----- From: "Matt" &l

[Declude.Virus] Question concerning SKIPEXT and GDI+ Vulnerability detection

2005-05-06 Thread Matt
d be a big improvement to be able to skip scanning them, and if we were protected with the vulnerability detection, I would feel comfortable turning off virus scanning of JPG's until a mass-mailing virus is seen. I wouldn't want to leave myself completely unprotected ho

Re: [Declude.Virus] vunerabilities

2005-05-05 Thread Matt
Outlook Long File Name Vulnerability     ALLOWVULNERABILITY    OLLONGFILENAME Matt Nick wrote: Does anyone know or have a list of the vulnerabilities that are a real problem and should be blocked or conversely the vulnerabilities that are not a virus/worm threat? Thanks! -Nick

Re: [Declude.Virus] Incremental Release

2005-05-05 Thread Matt
AWESOME!!! :) Thanks, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the foreseeable future Declude will be following a different release strategy. Beginning today we will be issuing Incremental Releases on a regular basis. These releases should be regarded as Beta Code although they will be fully documented

Re: [Declude.Virus] f-prot update script

2005-05-04 Thread Matt
update every 60 minutes offset 30 minutes from F-Prot. "C:\Program Files\FSI\F-Prot\FP-Updater\Updater.exe" /HIDDEN /INTERNET Matt   Darin Cox wrote: Hi Andrew, We have monitoring in place to know if any management process fails, so we'll know if this no longer works and we need

Re: [Declude.Virus] w32/Sober.O virus

2005-05-03 Thread Matt
traffic but others like myself are not.  Seems like you have a good handle on things now. Good luck, Matt Panda Consulting S.A. Luis Alberto Arango wrote: Matt and Dave: First of all thank you very much for answering my post. I am using fpcmd.exe Here is my config lines, in case I am

Re: [Declude.Virus] w32/Sober.O virus

2005-05-03 Thread Matt
eficial when you run multiple virus scanners since more CPU can be saved this way. F-Prot is generally very efficient. Matt Panda Consulting S.A. Luis Alberto Arango wrote: FYI: Today we were flooded with a massive incoming emails containing Sober.O (f-prot) virus. We receive aprox 15% of viruses o

Re: [Declude.Virus] SKIPIFFILE

2005-05-03 Thread Matt
SKIPIFEXT works with the banned file names. I believe that they must be the full file name however. For example: SKIPIFEXT DELETED0.TXT Matt John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: Is there a SKIPIFFILE similar to SKIPIFEXT for use in the BANNotify.eml file? John T eServices For You --- This E

Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot Alternative

2005-05-02 Thread Matt
less you want a full network installation. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: Matt posted the authoritative roundup in a head to head comparison when he revamped his Declude Virus setup. Unless he chimes in here with an updated answer, the answer is somewhere in the archives. Andrew 8) -Original Me

Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot and HTML object exploit

2005-05-02 Thread Matt
%20Shared\Stationery\"> I have no clue what the pattern is that it is hitting of course, but I assume that F-Prot just simply added an overbroad rule.  Most E-mail isn't constructed anything like what Microsoft Word creates. Matt Markus Gufler wrote: Question: Have you all run

Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot and HTML object exploit

2005-05-02 Thread Matt
Docket 2005 - 2 It looks like turning F-Prot off might be a good idea, or at least configuring it to not delete viruses. Matt John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: It appears that something has updated on F-Prot in the last hour. Now, a lot of outbound HTML e-mails are being flagged by F-Prot as

Re: [Declude.Virus] Who is minding the store

2005-05-02 Thread Matt
In the very least, they should set up a page on the site for bugs and plans for when they will be resolved, or what is being done to resolve them (not everything is a bug in Declude of course). This would be very helpful if it was in fact timely. Matt R. Scott Perry wrote: If Scott would

Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot missing viruses and is slow (renamed)

2005-04-29 Thread Matt
t please don't flame me for speaking my mind :)  I just want to compel methodical progress that benefits more than just myself. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: Ding!   ... and that's why we've spent so much time on this.   The log will show that F-Prot return

Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot missing viruses and is slow (renamed)

2005-04-29 Thread Matt
d the error code for each scanner.  Some scanners don't have parseable reports so when they are run in a multiple scanner config the new logging mechanism would be the only way to properly identify the result for that particular scanner. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: Yes, dur

Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot missing viruses and is slow (renamed)

2005-04-28 Thread Matt
hes a VIRUSCODE value. That leaves two real issues; 1) Time/CPU utilization with F-Prot, and 2) F-Prot continuing to report viruses with an exit code of 8. Matt Matt wrote: Colbeck, Andrew wrote: F-Prot is indeed returning an errorlevel of 8 on this, and it's definitely way out of lin

Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot missing viruses and is slow (renamed)

2005-04-28 Thread Matt
Title: Message When running Andrew's script, I confirmed that fpcmd.exe hit about 35% during the ~10 seconds that it was running, which is totally uncharacteristic.  I have dual 3.06 Xeons which have hyperthreading turned on (shows up as 4 processors in Windows). Matt Darrell ([

Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot missing viruses and is slow (renamed)

2005-04-28 Thread Matt
h it seems related, but there also seems to be a different bug here with at least F-Prot but possibly also Declude. Matt -- = MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ =

[Declude.Virus] F-Prot missing viruses and is slow (renamed)

2005-04-28 Thread Matt
know if there is a different code being returned, or if F-Prot is just bugging out and not returning a code.  Maybe some of you can clear that part up. Matt -- = MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ =

Re: [Declude.Virus] High CPU F-Prot

2005-04-28 Thread Matt
not only keeping more Declude processes open, but also increased CPU utilization.  Such a condition is ripe for exploiting, and I'm concerned that it has existed for so long without resolution, and maybe even detection... Matt Nick wrote: On 28 Apr 2005 at 16:44, Matt wrote: Hi Mat

Re: [Declude.Virus] High CPU F-Prot

2005-04-28 Thread Matt
lpful. Matt Bill Landry wrote: Matt, I searched 2 weeks of logs on both of my servers (both of which run F-Prot and TrendMicro) and could only find 4 instances of "Could not find parse string Infection", and they were found on the server that is very heavily loaded.  I use the f

Re: [Declude.Virus] High CPU F-Prot

2005-04-28 Thread Matt
1/2005 14:37:11 Qa2dce53900ee9f9d Scanned: CONTAINS A VIRUS [Prescan OK][MIME: 3 28098] 04/01/2005 14:37:11 Qa2dce53900ee9f9d From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [outgoing from 208.7.179.200] 04/01/2005 14:37:11 Qa2dce53900ee9f9d Subject: Re: Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: Ma

Re: [Declude.Virus] High CPU F-Prot

2005-04-28 Thread Matt
Nick, I know.  I sometimes don't read carefully myself :) Matt Nick wrote: On 28 Apr 2005 at 13:50, Matt wrote: Sorry about being wrong on both counts.. but I was trying to help! -Nick Nick, Thanks for the reply, but I think you missed part of the discussion.This

Re: [Declude.Virus] High CPU F-Prot

2005-04-28 Thread Matt
y close attention to this.  I haven't yet contacted F-Prot because I'm busy at this moment and this was only just confirmed by someone else.  I would have to say that Scott would be quite useful in a situation like this because it appeared that he had a line of contact with them (Sco

Re: [Declude.Virus] High CPU F-Prot

2005-04-28 Thread Matt
sorts of delays with the same characteristics.  Seems like a pretty serious and longer-term issue with F-Prot. Matt Markus Gufler wrote: No I've checked this already before: there is no appearance of the spool file name above this line. All I can see is something like  

Re: [Declude.Virus] High CPU F-Prot

2005-04-28 Thread Matt
d and shouldn't otherwise be. Matt Nick wrote: On 28 Apr 2005 at 12:57, Matt wrote: Matt - If this becomes a real problem that you see and can monitor I would revert back to an older scan.exe to eliminate the issue of versions. This is a possible clue: " Could not fi

Re: [Declude.Virus] High CPU F-Prot

2005-04-28 Thread Matt
nding the first entries.  Your entries should look the same or similar to mine.  The first entry for each such message that passes PRESCAN will start with the "MIME file" line.  It seems likely that you are experiencing the same thing. Matt Markus Gufler wrote: Matt, how

Re: [Declude.Virus] High CPU F-Prot

2005-04-28 Thread Matt
file contains a report of an error??? I'm also guessing that this might explain the high CPU usage that Darrell was reporting for F-Prot yesterday, though these events are not very common on my system, only about twice an hour it would seem. Matt -- ==

Re: [Declude.Virus] High CPU F-Prot

2005-04-27 Thread Matt
also the first time that I upgraded from 1.82, so I am watching my logs carefully.  Everything else seems hunky-dory.  If it's F-Prot that is causing the issue, I would imagine that it should disappear soon.  I would expect that others would also see some of the same. Matt Colbeck, And

Re: [Declude.Virus] High CPU F-Prot

2005-04-27 Thread Matt
u usage as most people has leaved the office some hours ago. Time to say good night for me too after haven't seen anything strange with f-prot on my server at the moment. |-) Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Matt

Re: [Declude.Virus] High CPU F-Prot

2005-04-27 Thread Matt
I saw F-Prot time out 3 times today in my logs, and I can't remember that ever happening before. McAfee didn't time out once, and that's usually the first to go. Maybe this explains the issue. I think it's time to so some performance monitoring to see what is up. M

Re: [Declude.Virus] Revisiting the McAfee command line arguments

2005-04-27 Thread Matt
are in one's config and that's fine with me.  I also think that the new release has turned the corner as far as bugs and changes are concerned. Matt Nick wrote: On 27 Apr 2005 at 8:55, Scott Fisher wrote: Thanks Scott - you have some switches I haven't seen ! Also - Declude

Re: [Declude.Virus] Revisiting the McAfee command line arguments

2005-04-27 Thread Matt
rted issues, so I'm going to assume that it is safe to use along with /NOBOOT. I'm still unsure about the heuristic stuff and the other switches.  It seems like using the heuristics are fairly common for those that have tweaked, but the other stuff doesn't seem to be used

Re: [Declude.Virus] Revisiting the McAfee command line arguments

2005-04-27 Thread Matt
urning PRESCAN OFF does result in a 50% increase in CPU utilization on my system when running both F-Prot and McAfee. Would you prefer the approach of including more qualifications for PRESCAN, or just switching it on and off per scanner? Matt Scott Fisher wrote: I'm using: SC

[Declude.Virus] Revisiting the McAfee command line arguments

2005-04-26 Thread Matt
ristics. I'm not sure what FP's either one of these could cause, but some around here do prefer tighter controls despite the risk of more FP's and these might be desirable under those conditions.  I'm not sure how they differ. Any comments or experiences would be appreciat

Re: [Declude.Virus] Adobe PDF embedded attachemt

2005-04-26 Thread Matt
things to detect what is likely a virus that may have passed the virus scanning. Matt Markus Gufler wrote: Although Adobe recommends enabling scanning all file types in order to scan a PDF (and ass/u/me'ing its embedded contents as well), an AV scanner is not currently going to b

Re: [Declude.Virus] McAfee throwing errors

2005-04-25 Thread Matt
27;t recall F-Prot ever throwing similar errors, though it isn't reliable enough on its own. Matt Scott Fisher wrote: I haven't seen anything obvious in a quick glance through today's logs. Do you have an example? Usually, I just force another download of the dats.

[Declude.Virus] McAfee throwing errors

2005-04-25 Thread Matt
such errors. Is anyone else seeing this? Thanks, Matt -- = MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ = --- This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing

Re: [Declude.Virus] How to check VIRUSCODEs

2005-04-21 Thread Matt
Title: Message Interesting! Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: Thanks for the insight, Matt.   We are used to seeing virus authors doing their seeding from the home-user cable, DSL and even dial-up pools, but these samples were definitely spammer web and email server blocks, and

Re: [Declude.Virus] How to check VIRUSCODEs

2005-04-21 Thread Matt
d to be many years behind us in terms of infrastructure.  SBL should not be listing DUL space. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: The return code = 8 in F-Prot does mean "suspicious file" and not "virus".  In this case, they are not calling the executable Bagle, they are calling

Re: [Declude.Virus] How to check VIRUSCODEs

2005-04-21 Thread Matt
Title: Message I'm going to send a support request as well.  Maybe if others would do the same, it might have a better chance of getting attention. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: The return code = 8 in F-Prot does mean "suspicious file" and not "virus".  I

Re: [Declude.Virus] How to check VIRUSCODEs

2005-04-21 Thread Matt
John, If you don't mind sharing, what was the issue that you had last week with F-Prot throwing a code 8 on legitimate E-mail?  Or did I get that wrong? Thanks, Matt John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: From my understanding is that code 8 means the file is suspect but doe

Re: [Declude.Virus] How to check VIRUSCODEs

2005-04-20 Thread Matt
a banned extension within it). Has anyone contacted F-Prot? Matt Goran Jovanovic wrote: This was originally a thread from the Junkmail list but I am moving it over to the virus list.   > Check your virus log and you may see some code 8 > errors in it. Adding viru

Re: [Declude.Virus] Another new virus

2005-04-19 Thread Matt
cy, it's just a matter of due diligence and if that doesn't work out then I will step it up a bit. Matt Markus Gufler wrote: Another idea, now with the ability to use customizable hold folders in v2   create a test that will move all messages containing a relative small zip

Re: [Declude.Virus] Another new virus

2005-04-19 Thread Matt
und with that a bit as well. Matt Gufler Markus wrote: Good idea to create some combo filter for small zip file attachments!   What about creating an external test that will count up small zip file attachments in a separate file and check if there are more then x suspicious zip

Re: [Declude.Virus] Another new virus

2005-04-18 Thread Matt
nism (a virus).  I'm confident that I can do this in a way that can capture most if not all zip viruses that have been in the wild in the last year though I am concerned about the potential of false positives and that will be the biggest problem in figuring out how to do this. Matt John Tolmachof

Re: [Declude.Virus] Another new virus

2005-04-15 Thread Matt
as a zero byte file with a zip extension.  The pattern that this virus uses results in an automatic hold on my system based on filters designed for zombies (for instance it forges the HELO to match the recipient domain), but most will also fail some DUL or other such tests.  I think Sniffer hit t

Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot tagging zips as code 8

2005-04-14 Thread Matt
on of the file itself as well as the renamed extension, though this appears to not be globally the case based on Andrew's tests that he shared. Matt John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: The thing is, it used to work as I have done that before. Renaming the file is only to

Re: [Declude.Virus] RAR followup

2005-04-14 Thread Matt
McAfee has been picking this up as "W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED]" since the first copy arrived at 3 p.m. EST. I assume from the name that this is a generic Bagle detection heuristic that pre-existed the virus. Matt John Carter wrote: Starting to see repeat names. Reminds me of viruses s

Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot tagging zips as code 8

2005-04-14 Thread Matt
My fault for the misread, but I also addressed the issue regardless.  Remove VIRUS CODE 8 from your config if you don't want for this to happen. Matt John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: John, I know that you don't follow this logic, but banning regular zips is extreme and u

Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot tagging zips as code 8

2005-04-14 Thread Matt
ate and I'm more than covered there. Matt John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: I sent an encrypted zip file out, changing the .zip to ._ip. F-prot scanned it and returned code 8, so Declude dutifly tagged it as infected. Virus Code 8 means suspect, correct? If this is what F-Prot is going to do, we n

Re: [Declude.Virus] to buy another virus-scanner ?

2005-04-01 Thread Matt
virus scanners with better management features such as Symantec. It all depends on your exact goals. Matt Uwe Degenhardt wrote: Hi list, I have the following problem: From time to time I got virusses on my eMail-Server's HD (IMail, 6.06). We have Declude and F-Prot 5.42 running on a Win 2000 S

Re: [Declude.Virus] Covad has a problem with our RBL

2005-03-31 Thread Matt
erver without additional configuration, and it will not use Covad's server for lookups unless you configure it to forward requests to their server (which you don't want to do). Setting up a DNS server is really your only legitimate option here. Matt Kevin Rogers wrote: I received the follow

Re: [Declude.Virus] Spam .com files being blocked.

2005-03-16 Thread Matt
it's just spam with a poor choice of name for an image file that is attached.     http://news.com.com/Zombie+PCs+being+sent+to+steal+IDs/2100-7349_3-5616202.html?tag=cd.top Matt Andy Schmidt wrote: Hm,   What version of Declude Virus are you using?   mine

Re: [Declude.Virus] Spam .com files being blocked.

2005-03-16 Thread Matt
with time as his spam campaign ramps up. Matt Scott Fisher wrote: I had to put SKIPIFEXT COM into my bannotify.eml file as a workaround. - Original Message - From: Matt To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:09 AM

Re: [Declude.Virus] Spam .com files being blocked.

2005-03-16 Thread Matt
bouncing when such a condition is detected. Matt Darin Cox wrote: Yep. I just added SKIPIFEXT COM to my bannotify.eml yesterday. Darin.     - Original Message - From: Scott Fisher To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 3:31 PM Subject:

Re: [Declude.Virus] Spam .com files being blocked.

2005-03-16 Thread Matt
an Bogus files should be treated as vulnerabilities are (historically), and not as banned extensions.  I'm running 1.82. Declude, will you please respond to the problem. Matt Darin Cox wrote: Yep. I just added SKIPIFEXT COM to my bannotify.eml yesterday. Darin.     -

Re: [Declude.Virus] ClamAV?

2005-02-17 Thread Matt
If so, that's one to add to the Declude Virus manualScott? Matt Scott Fisher wrote: Try adding this to your command line: --max-ratio 0 The support compression ratio feature (--max-ratio). Overly compressed files may get falsely detected. I believe the 0 turns it off. it worke

Re: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash

2005-02-07 Thread Matt
Title: Message Sounds like it's worth a test and some monitoring just to see if there is a measurable difference in mail scanning activities. Thanks for sharing. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: I should have also mentioned that the script first makes a list of the files to

Re: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash

2005-02-07 Thread Matt
ke being able to turn that off, or at least remove files from the root might make a big performance difference when you have high volume. Thanks, Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: FWIW, I recently ran into a weirdness with McAfee; I use the daily dat download (engine plus dats), and have so for

[Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash

2005-02-07 Thread Matt
e else seen either one of these errors on their systems? Thanks, Matt -- = MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ =

Re: [Declude.Virus] log question

2005-01-26 Thread Matt
are using IMail 8.1x, otherwise, try the Mail From address.  IMail should log the SMTP session and you should be able to piece that together and figure out what happened. Matt Thomas Doxtater wrote: Hi all,   We had some problems with a spam assassin box filling up over the past w

Re: [Declude.Virus] .tiff files

2005-01-26 Thread Matt
#x27;t know. Anyway, it seems like it would be your choice what to do with TIFF, though personally, I would not bother scanning it unless I was made aware of JPG viruses spreading and morphing into other extensions. Matt David Sullivan wrote: Does anyone know a reason why .tiff should not be ex

Re: [Declude.Virus] hlp attachments

2004-12-29 Thread Matt
ng HLP files is extremely uncommon and shouldn't be causing too many issues if you do. Matt Greg Little wrote: http://msmvps.com/trafton/ Just added HLP to my block list. (anyone what to vote, we just shut down the internet) Greg --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Findlay Internet] --

Re: [Declude.Virus] Upgrade issues

2004-12-22 Thread Matt
would include major changes like this in the release notes, otherwise it gives the appearance of being sneaky when it comes to such items. It is good that this is coming out now while in beta. Matt Info Wind wrote: Dear Greg, I think Declude will not make the mistake like Ipswitch. In the past

Re: [Declude.Virus] Upgrade issues

2004-12-21 Thread Matt
In which regard? - forging virus detection/MTLDB population (turned off by disabling forging virus detection with the "AUTOFORGE OFF" switch) - v1.8x installation (can't turn off, sends an E-mail, not sure what triggers it) - v2.0b installation (unconfirmed, but speculated). Matt

Re: [Declude.Virus] Upgrade issues

2004-12-21 Thread Matt
understand that Declude has a well warranted concern about unlicensed usage of their software and improvements have to be made, however my hands can't be tied nor my or my customer's privacy violated in order to achieve this goal.  Hopefully that will not be the case here. Matt Colbeck, Andr

Re: [Declude.Virus] testvirus.org #17

2004-12-17 Thread Matt
HTML with JavaScript will get scanned. Putting the eicar string in the middle of HTML will trigger your scanner if scanned, but I'm not convinced that it is exploitable in this format. Furthermore, turning PRESCAN OFF can result in +40% extra processor utilization on a system running two scanners.

Re: [Declude.Virus] testvirus.org #17

2004-12-17 Thread Matt
een something exploit this vulnerability and maybe there's a detection issue created by the eicar code in this way? Matt William Stillwell wrote: fixed #16 PRESCAN OFF #17 goes thru, - Original Message - From: "William Stillwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[

Re: [Declude.Virus] SKIPEXT - PDF

2004-12-14 Thread Matt
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=pdf+virus Matt Mark Smith wrote: Does anyone know of a reason why to scan PDF files? --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus

Re: [Declude.Virus] Multiple responses in the report.txt

2004-12-10 Thread Matt
loyees that tends to create more spam, and of course a general rise in spam rates.  Earlier this year I thought that zombie spam had gone through the roof, but in fact what was happening was isolated to the domains that started being dictio

Re: [Declude.Virus] Parallel processing

2004-12-10 Thread Matt
F-Prot. McAfee is of course a bit more responsible with their definitions, so if capacity isn't a problem, I would use that over ClamAV regardless. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: I'm using the f-prot command line scanner, and the lines in the virus.cfg look like this: SCANFILEC:\

Re: [Declude.Virus] Multiple responses in the report.txt

2004-12-10 Thread Matt
single scanner since it appears that they are more stable, though it is clear that any single scanner can have issues from time to time. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: Thanks, Matt. I only went for the Lite version because this is a gateway scanner. The internal mail servers are indeed protected

Re: [Declude.Virus] Advice on Antivirus for System Protection

2004-12-02 Thread Matt
Bill, Thanks a bunch for the kind words. Matt Bill Green dfn Systems wrote: Thanks Matt. I dare say there are probably many like myself that you don't hear from much, but we read the postings and learn a lot from you "regular posters". It is much appreciated. Bill Gr

Re: [Declude.Virus] Advice on Antivirus for System Protection

2004-12-01 Thread Matt
I'm not an expert on Symantec licensing, but you can definitely buy the media online as well. http://shopper-search.cnet.com/search?part=&q=Symantec+Corporate+Edition+media+9.0 Matt Dean Lawrence wrote: Matt, Looking at the costs on cnet, I don't see any mention of if you

Re: [Declude.Virus] Advice on Antivirus for System Protection

2004-12-01 Thread Matt
sure that you purchase over the Internet to save substantially. http://shopper-search.cnet.com/search?part=&q=Symantec+Corporate+Edition+Server+9.0 Matt Bill Green dfn Systems wrote: We've been using Declude/F-Prot to protect our email users, and Symantec Corp. Ed. to protect t

Re: [Declude.Virus] HTML_BOFRA.B not getting caught by Declude Virus

2004-11-28 Thread Matt
anned.  That would be difficult to prove unless your Debug log has more information such as the file names created and the sizes of each file, and this exposed a flaw. Matt Bill Landry wrote: - Original Message - From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot 3.16 New Exit Codes

2004-11-21 Thread Matt
riggering exit code 9 on damaged files might be highly indicative of corrupt viruses, but it could also trip on many different forms of corrupt data, and could cause false positives. I wouldn't recommend adding these codes to Declude based on the release notes. Matt Goran Jovanovic wrote

Re: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot 3.16 question.

2004-11-19 Thread Matt
t's own, but I could be wrong). http://www.aerasec.de/security/advisories/decompression-bomb-vulnerability.html Matt Panda Consulting S.A. Luis Alberto Arango wrote: Their release notes say "Among improvements introduced in version 3.16 of F-Prot Antivirus for Windows is a new

Re: [Declude.Virus] ClamAV scan time

2004-11-16 Thread Matt
ubstantial relief.  If his other scanner isn't F-Prot, he should also think about switching because there is nothing as efficient as F-Prot, and it hardly uses any resources. Matt Terry Fritts wrote: ClamAV when not run in daemon mode is very slow in comparison to other virus scanners.

Re: [Declude.Virus] ClamAV scan time

2004-11-15 Thread Matt
s. I played around with daemon mode several months back, but there was an issue with the service not shutting down when you told it to, so I abandoned it for the time being. Maybe some others have information about how to do this properly now with newer builds. Matt John Carter wrote: Has a

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