Re: [Clamav-users] hardware requirements for 250,000 messages

2005-01-27 Thread clamav
At 05:51 PM 1/27/2005, you wrote: I plan to setup a single box running FreeBSD, postfix, spamassassin, amavisd and clam. What kind of box should I get. Currently I have two boxes the first one is an Athlon running postfix and the second is RH with amavisD and F-sesure it's a dual PIII the loads

RE: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter without clamd

2005-01-27 Thread Nigel Horne
> It's a great idea to have clamav-milter do it's own thing. BUT, > what is its > relationship with freshclam? In the clamav-milter -> clamd, you could be > assured that clamd would always be aware of updates installed by > freshclam. > How does this work in the all milter, all the time, world?

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter without clamd

2005-01-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
Steven Stern said: > It's a great idea to have clamav-milter do it's own thing. BUT, what is > its > relationship with freshclam? In the clamav-milter -> clamd, you could be > assured that clamd would always be aware of updates installed by > freshclam. > How does this work in the all milter, all

[Clamav-users] clamav-milter without clamd

2005-01-27 Thread Steven Stern
It's a great idea to have clamav-milter do it's own thing. BUT, what is its relationship with freshclam? In the clamav-milter -> clamd, you could be assured that clamd would always be aware of updates installed by freshclam. How does this work in the all milter, all the time, world? -- Steve

Re: [Clamav-users] hardware requirements for 250,000 messages

2005-01-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
Andrew Kaplan said: > I plan to setup a single box running FreeBSD, postfix, spamassassin, > amavisd and clam. What kind of box should I get. Currently I have two > boxes the first one is an Athlon running postfix and the second is RH with > amavisD and F-sesure it's a dual PIII the loads is betwee

Re: [Clamav-users] hardware requirements for 250,000 messages

2005-01-27 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Andrew Kaplan wrote: I plan to setup a single box running FreeBSD, postfix, spamassassin, amavisd and clam. With spamassassin, that's hard. You could get the best x86 server out there and still have high load (e.g over 10) What kind of box should I get. Currently I have two boxes the first one i

[Clamav-users] hardware requirements for 250,000 messages

2005-01-27 Thread Andrew Kaplan
I plan to setup a single box running FreeBSD, postfix, spamassassin, amavisd and clam. What kind of box should I get. Currently I have two boxes the first one is an Athlon running postfix and the second is RH with amavisD and F-sesure it's a dual PIII the loads is between 3 and 4 during the day.

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Freddie Cash
Since ClamAV already has a naming scheme in place (Worm, Phishing, etc), why not just add a config file option to disable each classification (with all of them enabled by default)? Voila! Admins who want to block everything can do so. Admin who only want to block worms can do so. Admins who

Re: [Clamav-users] "ScanStream: read poll failed" error occurs with 0.81 release

2005-01-27 Thread exo dia
Thank you Paul, I just made these changes to my clamd.conf, and restarted clamd. Hopefully this will correct (work around?) the problem! What do these settings mean (I haven't dug that far into the source yet)? -ed On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:17:26 +0100, Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ex

Re: [Clamav-users] "ScanStream: read poll failed" error occurs with 0.81 release

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
exo dia wrote: I am piping e-mail via procmail, I pipe the e-mail to clamdscan through a shell script (no milter or anything being used.) This is the original version of the script I am using: http://www.everysoft.com/clamfilter.pl.txt I noticed the same, using a similar perlscript via procmail. I

Re: [Clamav-users] "ScanStream: read poll failed" error occurs with 0.81 release

2005-01-27 Thread exo dia
I am piping e-mail via procmail, I pipe the e-mail to clamdscan through a shell script (no milter or anything being used.) This is the original version of the script I am using: http://www.everysoft.com/clamfilter.pl.txt Thank you! -ed On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:53:17 +, Trog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Clamav-users] "ScanStream: read poll failed" error occurs with 0.81 release

2005-01-27 Thread exo dia
I apologize -- bad cut and paste in my first e-mail subject. This is the error from my logs: Thu Jan 27 11:28:12 2005 -> SelfCheck: Database status OK. Thu Jan 27 11:50:15 2005 -> ERROR: ScanStream: accept() failed. Thu Jan 27 11:57:43 2005 -> ERROR: ScanStream: accept() failed. Thu Jan 2

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Brian Morrison
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:30:56 +0100 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:29:06 -0600 (CST) > Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The simplest solution seems to be to write a wrapper around > > freshclam. > > You can patch ClamAV to filt

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:29:06 -0600 (CST) Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The simplest solution seems to be to write a wrapper around freshclam. You can patch ClamAV to filter out all *Phishing* sigs in libclamav/readdb.c. It should be simpler and more reliable solution. -- oo

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Damian Menscher
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Jason Haar wrote: clamAV (like all other AVs) produces a report stating what the malware is. In the case of Phishing, clamAV tags them as "*.Phishing.*". So, change your "blocking agents" to ignore such matches Don't be surprised if they don't have the option, but if

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Jason Haar
I don't understand what the fuss is. clamAV (like all other AVs) produces a report stating what the malware is. In the case of Phishing, clamAV tags them as "*.Phishing.*". So, change your "blocking agents" to ignore such matches Don't be surprised if they don't have the option, but if y

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:25 -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: > > >=20 > > We do a lot of on-line commerce. We cannot tolerate many false positives. > > Phishing exploits are something we deal with through education first, and > > filtering second. As phishers become more sophisticated and numerous

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Trog wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 13:05 -0600, Damian Menscher wrote: > Oh, ok. Apparently we have a different definition of plaintext. I > generally take anything using only the lower 7 bits (ASCII table) to > mean plaintext, and things that use the 8th bit to mean binary.

Re: [Clamav-users] "ScanStream: read poll failed" error occurs with 0.81 release

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 11:44 -0800, exo dia wrote: > Hello, > > The latest 0.81 release of clamav now displays "ERROR: ScanStream: > accept() failed." errors in the logs for some incoming e-mails. For > example if I send the "Test #6: Eicar virus embedded within another > MIME segment" test from ht

Re: [Clamav-users] "ScanStream: read poll failed" error occurs with 0.81 release

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 11:44 -0800, exo dia wrote: > Hello, > > The latest 0.81 release of clamav now displays "ERROR: ScanStream: > accept() failed." errors in the logs for some incoming e-mails. For > example if I send the "Test #6: Eicar virus embedded within another > MIME segment" test from ht

[Clamav-users] "ScanStream: read poll failed" error occurs with 0.81 release

2005-01-27 Thread exo dia
Hello, The latest 0.81 release of clamav now displays "ERROR: ScanStream: accept() failed." errors in the logs for some incoming e-mails. For example if I send the "Test #6: Eicar virus embedded within another MIME segment" test from http://www.webmail.us/testvirus it causes this error, where with

[Clamav-users] errors using clamav 0.81 with amavisd-new-2.2.1]

2005-01-27 Thread Erik Slooff
> Hi all, > > When using clamav 0.81rc1 with amavisd-new I get these errors: > Jan 22 12:05:22 donkeykong amavis[24030]: (24030-07) Mail::ClamAV > av-scanner FAILED: statchkdir() only works if a database directory was specified > to new() at (eval 35) line 62. > > clamav is configured in amavis

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Brian Morrison
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:54:22 -0500 (EST) in [EMAIL PROTECTED] jef moskot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jim Maul wrote: > > What if the plumber and the mechanic work on it together? ;) > > What if the electrician goes to night school to learn ornithology? Electrified owls? --

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 13:05 -0600, Damian Menscher wrote: > Oh, ok. Apparently we have a different definition of plaintext. I > generally take anything using only the lower 7 bits (ASCII table) to > mean plaintext, and things that use the 8th bit to mean binary. > Regardless of your definitio

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: clamav-users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 70

2005-01-27 Thread Nigel Horne
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 19:12, Kul wrote: > Then the restart: > Starting clamd: [ OK ] > Starting clamav-milter: /usr/local/sbin/clamav-milter: --max-children must be > given in internal mode > [ ** ] > > Had to do a roll back to 0.80, but I can install 0.81 on the backup > mailserver as nobo

[Clamav-users] Re: clamav-users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 70

2005-01-27 Thread Kul
> trying to start clamav-milter from 0.81 I get: > > Starting clamav-milter: /usr/sbin/clamav-milter: ScanMail not defined in > /etc/clamd.conf (needed without --external) What are your clamav-milter options? > Petr Hi Guys Sorry this thread doesn't follow, I have just sbscribed here, and don

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Trog wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:45 -0600, Damian Menscher wrote: > Another is your assertion that my "initial assumptions" were incorrect > when I suggested that phishing signatures were more likely to create > false positives as a result of being more likely to be match

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:45 -0600, Damian Menscher wrote: > Another is your assertion that my "initial assumptions" were incorrect > when I suggested that phishing signatures were more likely to create > false positives as a result of being more likely to be matching > plaintext. Which initial

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread jef moskot
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jim Maul wrote: > What if the plumber and the mechanic work on it together? ;) What if the electrician goes to night school to learn ornithology? ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

Re: [Clamav-users] 0.81 default clamd.conf and clamav-milter

2005-01-27 Thread Nigel Horne
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 18:37, Kul wrote: > > trying to start clamav-milter from 0.81 I get: > > > > Starting clamav-milter: /usr/sbin/clamav-milter: ScanMail not defined in > > /etc/clamd.conf (needed without --external) > > What are your clamav-milter options? > > > Petr > > Hi Guys > Sorry

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Trog wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:32 -0600, Damian Menscher wrote: > Seriously, that's an unfair question. When you're deleting people's > email, how would they find out if there was a false positive? With > spam, it's standard practice to review a junk-mail box for fals

RE: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread John Gallagher
The more tools that you have the likelihood of filtering it out increases. Just because I run ClamAv on the mail exchanger does not mean I do not run AV on our Exchange server and all of our desktop machines. Firewalls can do IDS functions, AV applications for the desktop are now including Anti Sp

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Jim Maul
Damian Menscher wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Trog wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:25 -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: > We do a lot of on-line commerce. We cannot tolerate many false positives. > Phishing exploits are something we deal with through education first, and > filtering second. As phishers

Re: [Clamav-users] 0.81 default clamd.conf and clamav-milter

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 18:37 +, Kul wrote: > > trying to start clamav-milter from 0.81 I get: > > > > Starting clamav-milter: /usr/sbin/clamav-milter: ScanMail not defined in > > /etc/clamd.conf (needed without --external) > > What are your clamav-milter options? > Uncomment the ScanMail

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:32 -0600, Damian Menscher wrote: > > > > And how many Phishing false positives have you had exactly? > > All of them. ;) > > Seriously, that's an unfair question. When you're deleting people's > email, how would they find out if there was a false positive? With > s

Re: [Clamav-users] 0.81 default clamd.conf and clamav-milter

2005-01-27 Thread Kul
> trying to start clamav-milter from 0.81 I get: > > Starting clamav-milter: /usr/sbin/clamav-milter: ScanMail not defined in > /etc/clamd.conf (needed without --external) What are your clamav-milter options? > Petr Hi Guys Sorry this thread doesn't follow, I have just sbscribed here, and dont have

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 11:14 -0600, Damian Menscher wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jim Maul wrote: > > > > Is it causing you (or anyone for that matter) a problem by clamav catching > > some phishing attempts as opposed to spamassassin catching them? Whats > > really the issue here? You just dont

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Trog wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:25 -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: > We do a lot of on-line commerce. We cannot tolerate many false positives. > Phishing exploits are something we deal with through education first, and > filtering second. As phishers become more sophisticate

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:25 -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: > > We do a lot of on-line commerce. We cannot tolerate many false positives. > Phishing exploits are something we deal with through education first, and > filtering second. As phishers become more sophisticated and numerous false > positi

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV 0.81 works great

2005-01-27 Thread Brian Morrison
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:59:57 - in [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Nigel Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > If you have received this > > communication in error, please notify me im

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Ken Jones
From: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/01/21/04FEphishing_1.html?source=NLC-WS2005-01-26 Phishers are employing increasingly sophisticated techniques, such as malicious code buried in images, keystroke-logging applications that download as soon as an e-mail is opened, and spoofed Web sites tha

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread BitFuzzy
You know, this gets old real quick! Back when this debate first started (around November or so) I never thought it would stop. In November I decided to do 2 things 1 log what virus's were being caught, where they were going, and what virus was detected. Out of 446 detected viruses, 167 were phish

Re: [Clamav-users] Latest CVS / outdated warning

2005-01-27 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:59:24 -0600 (CST) Michael Brennen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been running clamav for quite some time, generally following CVS. > The build and install procedures are well established and have worked > for a long time. After the latest CVS upgrade I'm suddenly gett

[Clamav-users] Latest CVS / outdated warning

2005-01-27 Thread Michael Brennen
el Jan 27 11:38:01 ... clamd[27135]: clamd daemon devel-20050127 (OS: linux-gnu,ARCH: i386, CPU: i686) # freshclam -V ClamAV devel-20050127/689/Thu Jan 27 07:33:10 2005 # freshclam -v Current working dir is /.../ Max retries == 5 ClamAV update process started at Thu Jan 27 11:49:0

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Dave Goodrich
Jim Maul wrote: If my car is broken usually I take it to a mechanic. But if a friend of mine who happens to be a plumber can fix it also, does it really matter if I bring it to him instead? No. -Jim Ok, I took part in the previous discussion and I accept the developers decision. But I just..

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:27:48 -0600 (CST) Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ...which is why, in my original email, I referred to things that > > > propagate automatical

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...which is why, in my original email, I referred to things that > propagate automatically without intervention from their author. OK, so what about the trojans? ;-) I take the somewhat-unusu

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
Sam said: > > Also to Damian: I understand what you are saying, but tend to agree more > with Jim. What does it matter who catches it as long as it's caught? The answer to this is simple: my policy for dealing with spam is quite different than my policy for dealing with viruses. Spam is annoying,

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:08:12 -0600 (CST) Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...which is why, in my original email, I referred to things that > propagate automatically without intervention from their author. OK, so what about the trojans? ;-) -- oo. Tomasz Kojm <[EM

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Jim Maul
Damian Menscher wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jim Maul wrote: Is it causing you (or anyone for that matter) a problem by clamav catching some phishing attempts as opposed to spamassassin catching them? Whats really the issue here? You just dont believe clamav is the right tool for that job, but

[Clamav-users] Building clamav 0.81 (broken zlib?)

2005-01-27 Thread Jim Maul
I am building clamav from src rpm from crash-hat. It build just fine but i get the message: configure: WARNING: ** This ClamAV installation may be linked against configure: WARNING: ** a broken zlib version. Please DO NOT report any configure: WARNING: ** stability problems to the Cl

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jim Maul wrote: Is it causing you (or anyone for that matter) a problem by clamav catching some phishing attempts as opposed to spamassassin catching them? Whats really the issue here? You just dont believe clamav is the right tool for that job, but is there REALLY a probl

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread C. Bensend
> Ok, so its not a virus, and its not spam. So neither product should > detect it your saying? How about both products detect it, we have > overlap, and users are happy cause they dont have to deal with this crap > in their inbox. Personally, I'd love to have it as a config option in clamd.conf.

RE: [Clamav-users] ClamAV 0.81 works great

2005-01-27 Thread GVeri
Nigel, You are far too detailed. Gord CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING: The information in the e:mail is confidential and privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual or entity it is addressed to. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the authorized agent

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > > > Phishing IS NOT spam! Is that really so hard to understand? > > Phishing IS NOT a virus! Is that really so hard to understand? 95% of internet

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Jim Maul
Damian Menscher wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tomasz Kojm wrote: Phishing IS NOT spam! Is that really so hard to understand? Phishing IS NOT a virus! Is that really so hard to understand? Ok, so its not a virus, and its not spam. So neither product should detect it your saying? How about both pro

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 27, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:27:00 -0500 Adam Tauno Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just my two cents - I agree with the other guy. CLAM should blocks virii and worms, and leave SPAM to something else. Just think of the Phishing IS NOT spam! Is that

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:57:27 -0600 (CST) Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > > > Phishing IS NOT spam! Is that really so hard to understand? > > Phishing IS NOT a virus! Is that really so hard to understand? 95% of internet worms are not viru

RE: [Clamav-users] ClamAV 0.81 works great

2005-01-27 Thread Nigel Horne
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have received this > communication in error, please notify me immediately by telephone or fax > and delete all copies of the original message. How can I do that if you don't q

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Mike Lambert
Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:27:00 -0500 Adam Tauno Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just my two cents - I agree with the other guy. CLAM should blocks virii and worms, and leave SPAM to something else. Just think of the Phishing IS NOT spam! Is that really so hard to understand

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tomasz Kojm wrote: Phishing IS NOT spam! Is that really so hard to understand? Phishing IS NOT a virus! Is that really so hard to understand? Damian Menscher -- -=#| Physics Grad Student & SysAdmin @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign |#=- -=#| 488 LLP, 1110 W. Green St, Urbana, IL 61

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:40:25 +0100 Stefan Hornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you give me a pointer to how Phishing is defined and detected in > the context of ClamAV ? See http://www.antiphishing.org/ "What is Phishing? Phishing attacks use 'spoofed' e-mails and fraudulent websites design

[Clamav-users] ClamAV 0.81 works great

2005-01-27 Thread GVeri
Hello, I just wanted to give the team a big thank you. All I needed to do was upgrade zlib and compile. Everything is working great. Gord CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING: The information in the e:mail is confidential and privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual or entity it

RE: [Clamav-users] Clamav upgrade 0.80-0.81rc1-1

2005-01-27 Thread Christopher Roberts
> I'm not sure how that could have happened. Did you choose cron in the > debconf setup, or something else? I wouldn't mind getting to > the bottom of this. I really don't recall the setup process. I believe I visited http://sial.org/howto/clamav/freshclam/ and took the following sentence to he

Re: [Clamav-users] Are we safe - WORM_BAGLE.AZ

2005-01-27 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 at 11:35:24 -0500, Don Levey wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 07:01 -0700, Craig Daters wrote: > >> > >> WORM_BAGLE.AZ is what Trend Net is referring to this as, there > >> message to me this morning follows: > > > > It is detected by Clam as Trojan

Re: [Clamav-users] Are we safe - WORM_BAGLE.AZ

2005-01-27 Thread Brian Morrison
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:35:24 -0500 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don Levey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm... Passed right through my setup, without detection. And your setup is? > Database updated as recently as 4:am today. That's more than 7 *hours* ago... -- Brian Morrison bdm at fenrir dot

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Stefan Hornburg
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:29:05 +0100 Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:27:00 -0500 > Adam Tauno Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just my two cents - I agree with the other guy. CLAM should blocks > > virii and worms, and leave SPAM to something else. Just th

Re: [Clamav-users] Are we safe - WORM_BAGLE.AZ

2005-01-27 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:35:24 -0500 "Don Levey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm... Passed right through my setup, without detection. > Database updated as recently as 4:am today. So better update your software ASAP. -- oo. Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\.

RE: [Clamav-users] Are we safe - WORM_BAGLE.AZ

2005-01-27 Thread Don Levey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 07:01 -0700, Craig Daters wrote: >> I'm thinking that someone has submitted this, and we already have the >> update...but does anyone know for sure if we are safe from this. >> >> WORM_BAGLE.AZ is what Trend Net is referring to this as, there >> mes

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:27:00 -0500 Adam Tauno Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just my two cents - I agree with the other guy. CLAM should blocks > virii and worms, and leave SPAM to something else. Just think of the Phishing IS NOT spam! Is that really so hard to understand? -- oo

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > There was a discussion about this several months ago. Unfortunately, > > many people (including part of the signature-generation team) are too > > dogmatic about their feelings that "phishing is bad, so we should block > > it" to look at it logically. > Is it causing you (or anyone for that

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus detection notification

2005-01-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> [sending notification to receiver] > It's possible with Amavisd-new to do this, But there is no way to do this [ send a message to the intended recipient] via clamav-milter itself? > but if it's wise??? It can > confuse the receiver, so inform them good about this kind of messages > (or make t

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 27, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: No problem. As a bonus we will create a signature for your domain name ;-) Just kidding! Honest! I'd NEVER think of having Windows thought of as a virus... :-) ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailma

Re: [Clamav-users] v0.81 suddenly says "ScanStream: accept() failed

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 16:44 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Trog wrote: > > What software are you using to pass requests/data to clamd? > > clamscan-procfilter.pl, a little perlprog to be used in procmail > essential boiling down to > "cat themsg | clamdscan --stdout - > $tempfile", > and examining $

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav upgrade 0.80-0.81rc1-1

2005-01-27 Thread Stephen Gran
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:12:09PM -, Christopher Roberts said: > > Check the value of "Checks" in /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf (defaults to > > 12, I think) > > Thanks GC, you're a genius. Or perhaps I'm just stupid - I just never > thought to read the error message that literally - it was set

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:45 -0600, Sam wrote: > (This is directed more at Trog than anyone...) So if one were to submit > phishing attempts, what do you need? I don't think the virus submission > page will allow one to submit something without an attachment? > > Do you need headers? > > Do you

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Sam
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jim Maul wrote: > Is it causing you (or anyone for that matter) a problem by clamav > catching some phishing attempts as opposed to spamassassin catching > them? Whats really the issue here? You just dont believe clamav is the > right tool for that job, but is there REALLY

Re: [Clamav-users] v0.81 suddenly says "ScanStream: accept() failed

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Trog wrote: What software are you using to pass requests/data to clamd? clamscan-procfilter.pl, a little perlprog to be used in procmail essential boiling down to "cat themsg | clamdscan --stdout - > $tempfile", and examining $tempfile for results. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Jim Maul
Damian Menscher wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Sam wrote: I have yet another question. I have noticed Clam stopping (or at least to me it appears to be stopping) various phishing attempts. Or am I wrong? If this is the case, I will start submitting phishing attemps I see (I probably get 3 - 4 a day).

Re: [Clamav-users] v0.81 suddenly says "ScanStream: accept() failed

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 16:19 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Upgraded this morning to 0.81, and suddenly I have frequently the > error message "ScanStream: accept() failed" in my logs. > > I have enable verbose logging, and notice that *most of the time* > all is ok, but frequently there is an accept

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Damian Menscher wrote: Please don't. Phishing attempts do not automatically propagate (by infecting a machine and being re-sent) and therefore are generally one-time events. As such, they can be trivially changed to evade any signature-based filter, which must obviously generate a signature _

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:32:55 -0500 Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Damian Menscher wrote: > > > There was a discussion about this several months ago. > > Unfortunately, many people (including part of the > > signature-generation team) are too dogmat

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 27, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Damian Menscher wrote: There was a discussion about this several months ago. Unfortunately, many people (including part of the signature-generation team) are too dogmatic about their feelings that "phishing is bad, so we should block it" to look at it logically. Ca

Re: [Clamav-users] Are we safe - WORM_BAGLE.AZ

2005-01-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 27, 2005, at 10:13 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Craig Daters Wow, that was some time ago, and TrendNet is only just now putting out an update! That's scarry! Thanks Trog What concerns me (if it is true that ClamAV has detected this specific variant since November) is that ClamAV is not per

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Sam wrote: I have yet another question. I have noticed Clam stopping (or at least to me it appears to be stopping) various phishing attempts. Or am I wrong? If this is the case, I will start submitting phishing attemps I see (I probably get 3 - 4 a day). Please don't. Phishing

RE: [Clamav-users] Are we safe - WORM_BAGLE.AZ

2005-01-27 Thread sk3tch
>Randal, Phil: > >Hold on a minute there! ClamAV detects it because it matches an >existing ClamAV virus pattern - that is serendipitous rather than >malicious. My apoligies if that is the case. However, I do know that Trend detected this before the new definitions were released as well. However

RE: [Clamav-users] Are we safe - WORM_BAGLE.AZ

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:13 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Craig Daters > >Wow, that was some time ago, and TrendNet is only just now putting out > >an update! That's scarry! > > > >Thanks Trog > > What concerns me (if it is true that ClamAV has detected this specific > variant since November)

RE: [Clamav-users] Are we safe - WORM_BAGLE.AZ

2005-01-27 Thread Randal, Phil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Craig Daters >> Wow, that was some time ago, and TrendNet is only just now putting >> out an update! That's scarry! >> >> Thanks Trog > > What concerns me (if it is true that ClamAV has detected this > specific variant since November) is that ClamAV is not > performin

[Clamav-users] v0.81 suddenly says "ScanStream: accept() failed

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Upgraded this morning to 0.81, and suddenly I have frequently the error message "ScanStream: accept() failed" in my logs. I have enable verbose logging, and notice that *most of the time* all is ok, but frequently there is an accept error: Thu Jan 27 16:09:06 2005 -> Accepted connection on port 125

RE: [Clamav-users] Are we safe - WORM_BAGLE.AZ

2005-01-27 Thread sk3tch
>Craig Daters >Wow, that was some time ago, and TrendNet is only just now putting out >an update! That's scarry! > >Thanks Trog What concerns me (if it is true that ClamAV has detected this specific variant since November) is that ClamAV is not performing due diligence and sharing samples to prote

[Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Sam
Trog: Thanks for the advice on the new releases. I have yet another question. I have noticed Clam stopping (or at least to me it appears to be stopping) various phishing attempts. Or am I wrong? If this is the case, I will start submitting phishing attemps I see (I probably get 3 - 4 a day).

Re: [Clamav-users] 0.81 - Question on Upgrade

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 08:25 -0600, Sam wrote: > I do have a question on the upgrade(s): Is there typically a period of > time where the old version will work alongside the new version? (I read > the faq and saw the mention of missing viruses if one doesn't upgrade). > The reason I ask is, in my

RE: [Clamav-users] Are we safe - WORM_BAGLE.AZ

2005-01-27 Thread Randal, Phil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trog wrote: >> It is detected by Clam as Trojan.Downloader.Small-165, which was >> added on 8th Nov 2004 by Christoph. >> > Wow, that was some time ago, and TrendNet is only just now > putting out an update! That's scarry! > > Thanks Trog > > -- > Craig Daters ([EMAIL

[Clamav-users] 0.81 - Question on Upgrade

2005-01-27 Thread Sam
Hi List! Please allow me to start by saying I'm relatively new here, having just switched to clam from RAV. I'm very impressed with the responsiveness of the Clam team, and with the Clam product. You guys do a great job. I do have a question on the upgrade(s): Is there typically a period of tim

Re: [Clamav-users] Are we safe - WORM_BAGLE.AZ

2005-01-27 Thread Craig Daters
Trog wrote: It is detected by Clam as Trojan.Downloader.Small-165, which was added on 8th Nov 2004 by Christoph. Wow, that was some time ago, and TrendNet is only just now putting out an update! That's scarry! Thanks Trog -- Craig Daters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systems Administrator West Press Print

Re: [Clamav-users] Are we safe - WORM_BAGLE.AZ

2005-01-27 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 07:01 -0700, Craig Daters wrote: > I'm thinking that someone has submitted this, and we already have the > update...but does anyone know for sure if we are safe from this. > > WORM_BAGLE.AZ is what Trend Net is referring to this as, there message > to me this morning follow

[Clamav-users] Are we safe - WORM_BAGLE.AZ

2005-01-27 Thread Craig Daters
I'm thinking that someone has submitted this, and we already have the update...but does anyone know for sure if we are safe from this. WORM_BAGLE.AZ is what Trend Net is referring to this as, there message to me this morning follows: > As of January 27, 2005 1:42 AM PST (Pacific Standard Time/

[Clamav-users] Upgrade instructions that ~I~ follow(ed)

2005-01-27 Thread Jeffrey Kroll
Here are the upgrade instructions that I follow(ed)! These do work if you follow them to the t! *oh ya ... Remember to backup your Freshclam.conf and clamd.conf =P~ unpack the old distribution: tar -zxf clamav-0.80.tar.gz run configure cd clamav-0.80 ./configure Unpack the

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: [Clamav-announce] announcing ClamAV 0.81

2005-01-27 Thread Frank Elsner
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:42:12 +0100 Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:37:33 +0100 > Frank Elsner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update > > > immediately! WARNING: Current functionality level = 3, required = 4 > > > > > > This is

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: [Clamav-announce] announcing ClamAV 0.81

2005-01-27 Thread Brian Morrison
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:57:30 +0100 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Won't your sheep(?) eat them? > > Actually it's a turtle. I really hate when people confuse it with > a sheep! ;-) OK, but turtles like flowers too don't they? -- Brian Morrison bdm at fenri

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