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

2007-04-13 Thread Freddie Cash
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 place it will cause the clamd cpu to rise to 90% and stay there. At 11M it may be too big to be practical. I think that

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

2007-04-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
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 place it will cause the clamd cpu to rise to 90% and stay there. At 11M it may be too big to be

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

2007-04-13 Thread Bill Landry
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%, and running truss does not return anything - just an empty screen. I can't tell what it's doing, but

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%, and running truss does not return anything -

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 place it will cause the clamd cpu to

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

2007-04-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On Friday 13 April 2007 09:25 am, Dennis Peterson wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: Heh, lucky you. =A0:) Out of the 4199 messages blocked as infected so far this month, 289 of = them were marked as MSRBL-Images/* by amavisd-new and clamav. =A0 $ tail -5000 /var/j*/*virus |grep -c MSRBL 106

[Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Obantec Support
Hi clamd died again from clamd.log SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload. Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file Terminating because of a fatal error.Socket file removed. Pid file removed. --- Stopped at Thu Apr 12 04:25:08

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

2007-04-12 Thread Guillermo Gómez Valcárcel
: jueves, 12 de abril de 2007 9:09 Para: ClamAV users ML Asunto: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again! Hi clamd died again from clamd.log SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload. Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file Terminating because

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

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:57:12 +0200 Guillermo Gómez Valcárcel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same symptoms. I wrote my symptoms in another post with subject: ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20070411.175950.b7329d9f.en.html -- oo

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

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Maidment
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:20:17 +0200, Tomasz Kojm wrote On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:57:12 +0200 Guillermo Gómez Valcárcel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same symptoms. I wrote my symptoms in another post with subject: ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file

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

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Maidment
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:20:17 +0200, Tomasz Kojm wrote On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:57:12 +0200 Guillermo Gómez Valcárcel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same symptoms. I wrote my symptoms in another post with subject: ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file

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

2007-04-12 Thread Guillermo Gómez Valcárcel
Asunto: Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again! attachment fixed On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:20:17 +0200, Tomasz Kojm wrote On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:57:12 +0200 Guillermo Gómez Valcárcel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same symptoms. I wrote my symptoms in another post with subject: ERROR

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

2007-04-12 Thread James Kosin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Obantec Support wrote: Hi clamd died again from clamd.log SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload. Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file Terminating because of a fatal

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

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:46:39 -0400 James Kosin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Obantec Support wrote: Hi clamd died again from clamd.log SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload. Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav

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

2007-04-12 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
Hello, Tomasz. You wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007, 5:49:04 PM: (2) ClamAV needs to change to fix the issue of a 0-byte CVD file causing it to CRASH. I _doesn't_ crash. It reports a critical error and terminates. Why it can't work with old bases in this situation? If it possible it will

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

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:06:51 +0400 Anton Yuzhaninov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Tomasz. You wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007, 5:49:04 PM: (2) ClamAV needs to change to fix the issue of a 0-byte CVD file causing it to CRASH. I _doesn't_ crash. It reports a critical error and

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

2007-04-12 Thread James Bourne
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:06:51 +0400 Why it can't work with old bases in this situation? If it possible it will be more better than stop working. freshclam already takes care to not install broken data and in this case the broken db (i.e. the empty CVD

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

2007-04-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday April 12, 2007 at 12:21:32 (PM) James Bourne wrote: This brings a question to my mind. Is there any need for the old .cvd files now that clamd uses the incremental files? I took this approach to the problem (freebsd) I shutdown clamav and freshclam. Deleted all of the files in

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

2007-04-12 Thread JamesDR
Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:06:51 +0400 Anton Yuzhaninov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Tomasz. You wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007, 5:49:04 PM: (2) ClamAV needs to change to fix the issue of a 0-byte CVD file causing it to CRASH. I _doesn't_ crash. It reports a

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

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:17:12 -0400 JamesDR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:06:51 +0400 Anton Yuzhaninov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Tomasz. You wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007, 5:49:04 PM: (2) ClamAV needs to change to fix the issue of

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

2007-04-12 Thread Steve Woods
Same problem here... I had to update clamd server and the database then the problem was resolved. Steve ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

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

2007-04-12 Thread Luigi Iotti
To who is experiencing the *.cvd problem due to the 3rd party scripts in the RPM packages maintained by Petr Kristof , available on http://crash.fce.vutbr.cz/crash-hat/5/ : Petr just released an upddated version of his packages, including the patches to the script I suggested on the list. Now the

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

2007-04-12 Thread James Kosin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luigi Iotti wrote: To who is experiencing the *.cvd problem due to the 3rd party scripts in the RPM packages maintained by Petr Kristof , available on http://crash.fce.vutbr.cz/crash-hat/5/ : Petr just released an upddated version of his

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

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:08:06 -0400 James Kosin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tested and clamd will try to read any file with the extension of .cvd in the /var/lib/clamav directory. My simple question is: Could this pose a security or virus scanning problem if someone managed to place an

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

2007-04-12 Thread James Bourne
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:08:06 -0400 James Kosin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tested and clamd will try to read any file with the extension of .cvd in the /var/lib/clamav directory. My simple question is: Could this pose a security or virus

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

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:22:51 -0600 (MDT) James Bourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:08:06 -0400 James Kosin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tested and clamd will try to read any file with the extension of .cvd in the

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

2007-04-12 Thread James Bourne
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:22:51 -0600 (MDT) James Bourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:08:06 -0400 James Kosin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tested and clamd will try to read any file with

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

2007-04-12 Thread James Kosin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomasz Kojm wrote: --snip-- This can be solved using file permissions as well, eg. by running clamd with only read privileges to the database directory. I was thinking about the possible VIRUS or TROJAN being able to gain root access by some

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

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:42:07 -0600 (MDT) James Bourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it may be possible, but that's still no excuse for clamd to bail when presented with two sets of data files, one invalid and one valid. There's no perfect solution to this problem. The only good one I could

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

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:54:30 -0400 James Kosin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomasz Kojm wrote: --snip-- This can be solved using file permissions as well, eg. by running clamd with only read privileges to the database directory. I was

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

2007-04-12 Thread James Kosin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:42:07 -0600 (MDT) James Bourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it may be possible, but that's still no excuse for clamd to bail when presented with two sets of data files, one invalid and one valid.

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

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:03:09 -0400 James Kosin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:42:07 -0600 (MDT) James Bourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it may be possible, but that's still no excuse for clamd to

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

2007-04-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 12, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:42:07 -0600 (MDT) James Bourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it may be possible, but that's still no excuse for clamd to bail when presented with two sets of data files, one invalid and one valid. There's no perfect

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

2007-04-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
Tomasz Kojm wrote: for 3rd party databases this can be managed with a simple script, no need for adding a keyring manager to ClamAV I swear it was just 8 weeks ago or so when we last had this discussion and all manner of fine ideas and scripts came out of it. Me thinks some folks need to

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

2007-04-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: Tomasz Kojm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for 3rd party databases this can be managed with a simple script, no need for adding a keyring manager to ClamAV I swear it was just 8 weeks ago or so when we last had this discussion and all manner

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

2007-04-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: Tomasz Kojm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for 3rd party databases this can be managed with a simple script, no need for adding a keyring manager to ClamAV I swear it was just 8 weeks ago or so when we last had this