Re: [clamav-users] We STILL cannot reliably get virus updates (since new mirrors)

2018-07-10 Thread Freddie Cash
Joel posted pictures (in one of these update thread) of where the mirrors are located along with the relative traffic that each one transfers. Cheers, Freddie Typos courtesy of my phone's keyboard. On Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 6:37 PM Paul Kosinski, wrote: > I have a question. I presume that there ar

Re: [clamav-users] We STILL cannot reliably get virus updates (since new mirrors)

2018-07-06 Thread Freddie Cash
unsynched" messages in the freshclam.log for the last 8 checks (we do 6 per day). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

Re: [clamav-users] We STILL cannot reliably get virus updates (since new mirrors)

2018-07-03 Thread Freddie Cash
ot; in the devs and demanding everything be redone from scratch, how about we wait a bit while they work out the bugs in the new setup. Are updates completely broken right now? No. Are there occasional hiccups? Sure. Are things getting better? Yeah, they are. Are they perfect?

Re: [clamav-users] Mirror Load + ClamAV Updates

2018-06-26 Thread Freddie Cash
access: Tue Jun 26 15:08:52 2018 Ignore: Yes - Mirror #9 IP: 2400:cb00:2048:1::6810:b98a Successes: 0 Failures: 1 Last access: Tue Jun 26 15:08:52 2018 Ignore: Yes - Mirror #10 IP: 2400:cb00:2048:1::6810:ba8a Successes: 0 Failures: 1 Last access: Tue Jun 2

Re: [clamav-users] Mirror Load + ClamAV Updates

2018-06-26 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Joel Esler (jesler) > wrote: > >> Team -- >> >> Today we were able to add 100% of the mirror infrastructure to our CDN, >> Cloudflare. We are currently measuring the load an

Re: [clamav-users] Mirror Load + ClamAV Updates

2018-06-26 Thread Freddie Cash
t (IP: 2400:cb00:2048:1::6810:b98a) Tue Jun 26 14:34:33 2018 -> ERROR: Can't download daily.cvd from db.local.clamav.net Tue Jun 26 14:34:33 2018 -> Giving up on db.local.clamav.net... Tue Jun 26 14:34:33 2018 -> Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors lis

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV(R) blog: ClamAV 0.99.4 has been released!

2018-03-07 Thread Freddie Cash
If you would take the time to actually read the message, you'd see that freshclam is routing the local version as 0.99.4 and complaining that is behind the recommended version of 0.99.4. IOW, it's a spurious error message that's complaining incorrectly. Something the ClamAV devs will need to fix.

Re: [clamav-users] Locky Dridex plan

2016-03-26 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mar 26, 2016 6:26 AM, "C.D. Cochrane" wrote: > > And I am guessing my Linux distro will not just seamlessly move on to 0.99 by itself with an "apt-get update". Debian 6 includes ClamAV 0.98. Thus, anything newer than that will have a newer version of ClamAV. And if you are running anything old

Re: [clamav-users] [Clamav-announce] announcing ClamAV 0.97.2

2011-07-29 Thread Freddie Cash
.1 installed, as Lenny is at 0.97.1: $ aptitude show clamav Unable to find an archive "squeeze-backports" for the package "clamav" Package: clamav State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 0.97.1+dfsg-1~lenny1 The above is from our mail server that was runnin

Re: [Clamav-users] safe_clamd

2010-10-14 Thread Freddie Cash
t; safe_clamd > > instead of: > > clamd > > and get the benefits of a monitoring script without any effort. I haven't looked at the script yet, but for something simple like checking if clamd is responding, wouldn't a cronj

Re: [Clamav-users] Some questions about clamav update warning messages

2010-07-06 Thread Freddie Cash
So long as you are running 0.95 or newer you don't have to worry about these errors. If you want the absolute latest features, then install the latest version. Otherwise, carry on. 0.95 works perfectly well. These are just notices, not "you must upgrade or die" messages. :) -- F

Re: [Clamav-users] Tiered freshclam updates on port443

2010-05-21 Thread Freddie Cash
ork. The only apps installed are the ones required for doing your work, and the only approved activities are those that pertain to doing your work. It's not your personal PC to do with as you please. That sounds more like a home computer. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [Clamav-users] [Windows] How does ClamAV compare with closed-source alternatives?

2010-05-12 Thread Freddie Cash
e its way to end-users > machines, regardless of the vector or attack. > That could be, although everything I've seen on this list has been that ClamAV is geared toward e-mail-based malware. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] [Windows] How does ClamAV compare with closed-source alternatives?

2010-05-12 Thread Freddie Cash
scanning, repairing, and recovering Windows systems, ClamAV is not what you want. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] Some doubts about Clamav upgrade

2010-05-04 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: > On 5/4/10 1:25 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > > Add the volatile repo to /etc/apt/sources.list, if it's not already there. >> >> Then it's a simple: >> aptitude update >> aptitude install clamav-

Re: [Clamav-users] Some doubts about Clamav upgrade

2010-05-04 Thread Freddie Cash
ebug symbols for clamav > Add the volatile repo to /etc/apt/sources.list, if it's not already there. Then it's a simple: aptitude update aptitude install clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam aptitude will install everything else automatically. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___

Re: [Clamav-users] My first question in this mailing list

2010-05-04 Thread Freddie Cash
right now, but I just need to know, > before upgrade it, what is its version. > > Thanks in advance. > When in doubt, check the man page. Doing so for freshclam or clamscan shows: freshclam --version clamscan --version -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Freddie Cash
k with any previous version, etc. > Because the open-source idea is > all based on freedom. > Not in the way you think it is. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Freddie Cash
ke up >> ClamAV update process started at Fri Apr 16 10:26:14 2010 >> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! >> WARNING: Local version: 0.95.3 Recommended version: 0.96 >> DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq >> main.cvd is up to date (version: 5

Re: [Clamav-users] Automating freshclam

2010-04-09 Thread Freddie Cash
updates? > > It doesn't. The Checks parameter in freshclam.conf tells the freshclam daemon how often to poll the update servers to see if there are updated database files to download. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] Automating freshclam

2010-04-08 Thread Freddie Cash
necessary to run it from cron, I believe. > > Where is this documented? > There's always been 2 ways to run freshclam: - manually, either via the CLI or via cron - as a daemon If run via cron, the Checks parameter has no meaning. If run as a daemon, the Checks parameter specifies h

Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-05 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Steve Basford wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: >> >> Yes, I still have this directory.  If anyone is interested in it, I >> can tar it up and make it available.  Can also tar up the working >> directory is needed. > > Yep, I&#x

Re: [Clamav-users] load issues due to sanesecurity signatures

2009-11-02 Thread Freddie Cash
p over 700,000, and still the CPU usage is under 20%. Haven't had any issues since then, so can't really say if it was a corrupted database, a bad signature, or exactly what the issue was. Don't have any plans to test the old copies of the database files, as I don't want to mes

Re: [Clamav-users] Script updated: clamav-unofficial-sigs.sh (v3.2)

2009-05-14 Thread Freddie Cash
ll not change. Which is fine. But the docs don't match the script. The only reason I brought it up was that it was mentioned in the release notes. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] Script updated: clamav-unofficial-sigs.sh (v3.2)

2009-05-14 Thread Freddie Cash
it all references /etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs.conf, which is different from the *.cron file, where everything references /usr/local/etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs.conf. And the INSTALL file references both locations. Perhaps it's time to cook up a Makefile or an install script that uses sed to alter

Re: [Clamav-users] 0.95 compile problem on FreeBSD 4.8

2009-04-01 Thread Freddie Cash
On April 1, 2009 8:13 am Mark wrote: > -Original Message- > From: clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net > [mailto:clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf Of Steffan > Vigano Sent: dinsdag 31 maart 2009 23:01 > To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > Subject: [Clamav-users] 0.95 compile

Re: [Clamav-users] Can anybody direct me to the correct postfix/amavis-new clamav configuration

2009-02-27 Thread Freddie Cash
On February 27, 2009 8:32 am Goodman, William wrote: > I'm running postfix and amavisd-new, spamassassin and clamav. I have all > the daemons running and mail is getting > filtered through amavisd-new (as per the header), I'm trying to get > spammassassin and clamav configured with > postfix. I don

Re: [Clamav-users] Frequency of virus attacks

2008-06-13 Thread Freddie Cash
about 300,000 are blocked as spam by amavis/spamassassin/dspam, another 50,000 or so are tagged as possible spam but still delivered, and maybe 20,000 are blocked as infected. The rest go through. So they're still out there. :) -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [Clamav-users] I need to refute a 'security expert'

2007-11-19 Thread Freddie Cash
with MacOS X and the issue is the same. Don't blame the OS for people who can't use the correct term. :) We just need to start beating people with clue bats that there is no such beast as "Linux" the OS. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician Sch

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing feature defaults, naming, and 0.92

2007-11-16 Thread Freddie Cash
another and uses the same configfile??? In the world of open-source, pre-1.0 version numbers *do not* equal beta status. There are some projects that have dozens of stable, production-quality releases, without ever hitting 1.0. These are stable, production-ready releases. -- Freddie Cash [EM

Re: [Clamav-users] PhishingScanURLs is dreadfully slow/CPU-intensive

2007-10-30 Thread Freddie Cash
s-army-knife bloatware is a Windows thing. Let's keep it there. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Help us build a compre

Re: [Clamav-users] speeding up clamav

2007-09-10 Thread Freddie Cash
course.. and it's performance in > terms of detection rates far outstrips most of the competition. We > really only have the commercial scanners in there because customers > want to see them for confidence and that may well change in the future > thanks to Sourcefire. -- Fred

Re: [Clamav-users] Sourcefire's acquisition of ClamAV -- Will ClamAV become close source ?

2007-08-27 Thread Freddie Cash
On August 27, 2007 06:30 am Sergei Lavrov wrote: > Does this mean ClamAV will become close source > sometime in the future ? Read through the mailing list archives for this month, there's a super-long thread on this subject in there. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Netw

Re: [Clamav-users] Problems with installation

2007-08-02 Thread Freddie Cash
On August 2, 2007 01:42 pm Steven wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: > > Note: The latest version of the ports tree that will successfully > > work with FreeBSD 4.x must be cvsupped using tag=FREEBSD_4_EOL and > > *not* tag=. like normal. After that tag was put on the ports tre

Re: [Clamav-users] Problems with installation

2007-08-02 Thread Freddie Cash
tall newer versions of software than what is in the FREEBSD_4_EOL ports tree, you will need to either upgrade to FreeBSD 6.x, or install it manually via source tarballs and the "standard" './configure; make; make install' method, taking extra care to get the .

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-13 Thread Freddie Cash
On Friday 13 April 2007 09:25 am, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: > > On Thursday 12 April 2007 06:53 pm, Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> And just an fyi, be cautious of the MSRBL-Images file. Rechecking it > >> while I was typing this shows that with it in p

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-13 Thread Freddie Cash
On Friday 13 April 2007 01:35 pm, Bill Landry wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote the following on 4/13/2007 12:43 PM -0800: > >> I'm running dual proc Sun Sparc systems, and the cpu usage from > >> clamd appears to be an unhealthy kind of cpu usage. It sits at 95%, > >>

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-13 Thread Freddie Cash
On Friday 13 April 2007 09:25 am, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: > > On Thursday 12 April 2007 06:53 pm, Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> And just an fyi, be cautious of the MSRBL-Images file. Rechecking it > >> while I was typing this shows that with it in p

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav-0.90.2 compile Error on FreeBSD 4.8

2007-04-13 Thread Freddie Cash
f you mean ClamAV, > you're mistaken. File a bug report against 4.x and we'll look into it, > I have a Pentium running FreeBSD4.11 in my compile farm. See my post to Anton in this thread. There is no longer any support in the FreeBSD ports tree for FreeBSD 4.x systems. --

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav-0.90.2 compile Error on FreeBSD 4.8

2007-04-13 Thread Freddie Cash
removed from the ports tree after that tag was laid down. To use "tag=." when cvsup'ing the file is just asking to break things. :) -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-13 Thread Freddie Cash
with 4 GB of RAM. YMMV. :) -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wik

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: problem during compilling clamav-0.90.1

2007-03-16 Thread Freddie Cash
ping major versions. If you're going to stick with FreeBSD 4.x, then you will need to edit your ports supfile to use tag=RELEASE_4_EOL. That's the last-known-working ports tree for FreeBSD 4.x. After that tag was put on the ports tree, they removed all support for FreeBSD 4.x from t

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: 0.90.1 from ports crashing on FreeBSD 5.4 during selfcheck

2007-03-15 Thread Freddie Cash
#x27; 'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include ' > > 'CXX=c++' 'CXXFLAGS=-O -pipe' > > Further testing shows that, for FreeBSD 5.4 at least, the use of -lthr > (1:1 Threading Library) the result is instability. The second I added > that to the configure argumen

Re: [Clamav-users] This seems particularly nasty

2006-10-20 Thread Freddie Cash
ing: - how many viruses were found upon initial install? - how many of the undetected ones were found after updating the definition files? - how many of the still undetected ones were found after 1 day? one week? two weeks? a month? - how long until all viruses were detected? Would require

Re: [Clamav-users] Disable Specific Document Scanning

2006-07-12 Thread Freddie Cash
point). You need to configure the "glue" product that passes the files to ClamAV. In this case, it's ClamSMTP. No idea how to configure it, though. It may be that you can't configure it the way you want, and you'll need to look at something else (like amavisd-new or M

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav and OpenLDAP

2006-07-12 Thread Freddie Cash
milter, sendmail, and clamav-milter support all sync'd together with any LDAP options. IOW, unless you already have LDAP installed, it won't add anything to your system. If you already have LDAP installed, but don't want LDAP support in your sendmail/milter setup, then you may run in

Re: [Clamav-users] OT: Download script

2006-04-24 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, April 23, 2006 11:04 pm, Steve Basford wrote: > In order to optimize the use of my bandwidth for the unofficial > phishing signatures, I want to put up a few example scripts on the > main page of my site that users should use to download the phish.ndb > file. > The reason is that I've got

Re: [Clamav-users] Unofficial Phishing Signatures

2006-01-26 Thread Freddie Cash
or run freshclam to have it reload the databases. clamscan loads the databases each time it is called, so it will pick up the new databases right away. clamdscan uses clamd, see above. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-1 CCNT CCLP Helpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73

Re: [Clamav-users] Squirriel Mail clamav scanner

2006-01-09 Thread Freddie Cash
r attachments, similar to the way Yahoo!/Hotmail do things. That way, it wouldn't scan every message as it came in, but would only scan messages with attachments, when those attachments are accessed. But that's getting into the realm of the SM developers, and not so much the clamav devs.

Re: [Clamav-users] Squirriel Mail clamav scanner

2006-01-09 Thread Freddie Cash
hile it's not the most optimal setup, having the option to scan messages in the mail client should not be frowned upon. If your mail provider does not scan your incoming messages, then the mail client is a good place to scan messages. After-all, it's the only place *you*, the recipie

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Worm.Sober.U not being recognized

2005-11-29 Thread Freddie Cash
ps, as it lists changes like this. :) -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] benchmarks for a LARGE site?

2005-05-06 Thread Freddie Cash
about 56% blocked as spam, and 15-20% blocked due to viruses. If needed, I can post the mail stats for Sept. 2004 (when the server went online) to Apr. 2005. This box is very lightly loaded, and was even used as a test Courier-IMAP and Cyrus IMAP server for the IT department (15 accounts) without any

Re: [Clamav-users] looking for utility that can control clamav remotely ...

2005-04-27 Thread Freddie Cash
e (http://www.swelltech.com), as it's mucher lighter weight than the default Webmin theme, and a lot nicer than the included light-weight theme. -- Freddie Cash, CLCP CNCPNetwork Support / Helpdesk School District 73 (250) 377-4357 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Freddie Cash
output, it looks like you have two separate processes running. One that wakes up every 30 minutes at 22 after and 52 after. The other that wakes up at half-past (at least, there's not enough log output to confirm the pattern). The entries are very regular

Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Freddie Cash
om script or tarball lurking under ~/bin or ~/home? -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav on gateway + sniffer to intercept mail attachments

2005-02-16 Thread Freddie Cash
a very basic Postfix install that relays all messages through our main mail server. This lets us trace back infected messages to the source computer, which has a private IP address. Quite handy. Not fully automated, but it works. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support

Re: [Clamav-users] M$ preparing AV software ?

2005-02-09 Thread Freddie Cash
pread so easily, instead of adding more and more layers of bandaids on top. Fix the foundation, don't try to prop up the walls with two-by-fours. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Freddie Cash
don't want to block anything, can do so. Make ClamAV the best scanner out there, but give the users the ability to turn it into the best scanner. :) -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROT

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Any way to add a line to cleaned email?

2005-01-10 Thread Freddie Cash
On January 10, 2005 08:58 am, Trog wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 16:53, Freddie Cash wrote: > > You're missing the main point of ClamAV: it's a server-based virus > > scanner for e-mail. > > It's not a workstation AV solution. Just because some people try &g

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Any way to add a line to cleaned email?

2005-01-10 Thread Freddie Cash
tations. Think of ClamAV as a plastic bubble around your house that prevents airborne viruses from entering your house. It keeps new viruses out, but you can't use it to clean a virus off your piano. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav as HTTP scanner?

2004-12-15 Thread Freddie Cash
rver that scans all those downloads. If most of the file downloading is done via FTP or HTTPS, having a scanner might not make sense. Or, if you have a centrally-managed desktop AV system, it might not be worth putting in an HTTP virus scanner. It all depends on your uses. -- Freddie Cash, CCN

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav as HTTP scanner?

2004-12-15 Thread Freddie Cash
to the client while it scans the file, does make it seems like your connection is super slow. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://lis

Re: [Clamav-users] daily.cvd and main.cvd

2004-10-16 Thread Freddie Cash
l work for this. Or a FAM script. Granted, this wouldn't work across a WAN, but it would work fine for a bunch of servers on a LAN. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-H

Re: [Clamav-users] TCP/IP + ClamAV

2004-07-28 Thread Freddie Cash
file downloads for viruses. http://www.dansguardian.org http://www.harvest.com.br/asp/afn/wcfp.nsf Runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, and several Linux distros. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377

Re: [Clamav-users] upgrade

2004-07-27 Thread Freddie Cash
o find where the other one is and remove it. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic