Re: [clamav-users] Feedback: Confusing branding, off putting to new users

On 6/24/2024 9:19 AM, Joel Esler via clamav-users wrote: Not being the manager for ClamAV anymore, but we now have four threads about the logo.  Feedback is appreciated, but the mail threading breaking is driving me crazy! I wonder how many here understand how threading works and how many mail

Re: [clamav-users] Feedback: Confusing branding, off putting to new users

On 6/23/2024 7:02 PM, andre.nz--- via clamav-users wrote: Thankyou for clarifying that it is meant to look like malware. But that is the opposite of what the software does and the impression you want to give. It should be the cure, that's why so many security products use a shield. The ClamWin lo

Re: [clamav-users] reject/flag files based on extension

On 6/4/2024 9:27 AM, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users wrote: I don't think there is any mechanism in clamav-milter or clamd to alert/convinct/block attachments scans based on file extension. Perhaps there is an option in Sendmail? MIMEDefang and MailMunge do this. They're milters usabl

Re: [clamav-users] Question About MaxFileSize

--On Friday, June 09, 2023 6:40 PM -0400 Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote: I have on occasion heard of vulnerabilities in some archiving software, where the mere act of decompressing and extracting an archive can result in malicious code execution due to a bug in the archiving software. Af

Re: [clamav-users] Fwd: Query re Windows and adding Clamav to the system "environmental variables"

--On Friday, June 09, 2023 3:45 PM +0100 Fergus Courtney via clamav-users wrote: Is it possible to run "clanscan - r " and "freshclam" from a command prompt without the need of going into the C:\Program Files\ClamAV folder to start or run these .exe's? I tried adding the ";C:\Program Files\Cl

Re: [clamav-users] freshclam-sleep doesn't exist in epel8 packages

On 11/1/2022 10:51 AM, khodor barakat via clamav-users wrote: do you think i should create a freshclam.service with timer and reference the clamav-freshclam.service , also in freshclam.conf the checks by default is set to 12 checks by day and you can change that, freshclam-sleep is a hack to

Re: [clamav-users] freshclam-sleep doesn't exist in epel8 packages

Also look at "man freshclam.conf". I don't see any facility to randomize the check times, as freshclam-sleep provides. That's where a systemd timer would be nice, as it provides a rich set of syntax for random sleeps. ___ Manage your clamav-users

Re: [clamav-users] freshclam-sleep doesn't exist in epel8 packages

On 10/28/2022 5:38 PM, khodor barakat via clamav-users wrote: do you have any documentation about the service, i know that the service is installed within the package but wondering what extra config i need to add Try "man freshclam". Here's an online copy but I don't know what version it's f

Re: [clamav-users] freshclam-sleep doesn't exist in epel8 packages

Looks like a nudge to switch to the systemd service instead of a cron listing. Try: systemctl enable clamav-freshclam I'm a little surprised that they didn't use a systemd timer. ___ Manage your clamav-users mailing list subscription / unsubscribe:

[clamav-users] Patent troll attacks AV vendors

Is Clam affected by this? In early March, cybersecurity firm Webroot and its parent company OpenText launched a series of patent litigation containing some eye-opening claims

Re: [clamav-users] what initiates freshclam? [OT]

--On Friday, January 07, 2022 10:45 AM -0500 Kris Deugau wrote: IIRC most of that one can be laid at the feet of the kernel developers trying to make hardware enumeration more predictable, and systemd is just one of several places the sysadmin can try to clean up the pieces. Agreed. I recomm

Re: [clamav-users] what initiates freshclam?

--On Thursday, January 06, 2022 7:51 PM + novpenguincne via clamav-users wrote: Mystery solved. I checked for cron jobs but I only looked in /var/spool/cron and didn't think to check in /etc/crond.d. Long ago (before systemd) the Red Hat family stopped using the root crontab for periodi

Re: [clamav-users] what initiates freshclam?

On 1/6/2022 7:13 AM, novpenguincne via clamav-users wrote: I'm still experimenting with Clam and I've got 103.4 installed on an OEL 7.9 box.  I've got freshclam configured to download new updates every few hours.  I can manually run freshclam and successfully receive updates and I can manually

Re: [clamav-users] Clam updates failing

On 10/21/2021 10:14 AM, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote: I've never seen a DNS age warning, but that might be because, for several years now, I only run freshclam when the DNS TXT record (which I check hourly) says there is a new signature available compared to a local file's version numbe