I'm looking into the PUA issue and will follow up about that.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Douglas Goddard <dgodd...@sourcefire.com>
wrote:

> That is a zip signature looking for double extension files. So, it is
> interesting that it is alerting on a .txt file, unless that is a zip file
> in disguise.
>
> You can whitelist the signature by adding a whitelist.ign file to your
> ClamAV database directory (for me, the path is: /usr/local/share/clamav/).
> In that file put the signature names that you do not want alerting, one per
> line.
>
> This signature and the others published in their set look for common
> double extension tricks like your_document-pdf.exe.
>
> If that is truly a text file or you would like to have me take a look at
> it to see if the signature should be modified please submit it as an FP via
> http://www.clamav.net/fp.
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Mark Price <mpr...@tqhosting.com> wrote:
>
>> In the past day we have had clamscan on several servers detect infected
>> files due to:  PUA.Windows.DoubleExtension-zippwd-3
>>
>> I've read the clamscan manpage but have not had any luck with getting the
>> "--detect-pua" option to work.  Example:
>>
>> # clamscan --detect-pua=no ./sample-msg1.txt
>> ./sample-msg1.txt: PUA.Windows.DoubleExtension-zippwd-3 FOUND
>>
>> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
>> Known viruses: 3515268
>> Engine version: 0.98
>> Scanned directories: 0
>> Scanned files: 1
>> Infected files: 1
>> Data scanned: 0.00 MB
>> Data read: 0.05 MB (ratio 0.00:1)
>> Time: 9.402 sec (0 m 9 s)
>>
>>
>> In this case, is the infected file being detected by a PUA that I should
>> be
>> able to disable with command line option?  Or is "PUA" simply part of the
>> virus signature name?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
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