Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-18 Thread Jim Maul
Quoting Bill Randle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 19:16, Michael D. Crawford wrote: I think the virus that's assaulting me is what this page calls the PE_ZAFI.B virus: http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=PE_ZAFI.BVSect=T The clamav database lists a virus

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-18 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 18 June 2004 06:29 am, Jim Maul wrote: Its also interesting to note that even before clamav detected zafi it was being blocked by qmail-scanner: Jun 15 12:25:19 external qmail-scanner[29017]: Policy:Bad_MIME_Break:RC:0(24.188.90.209):SA:1(10.5/5.0): 2.184665 18140 [EMAIL

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-18 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I've been using formail, procmail and clamav to disinect a 200 MB mailbox, and since last night it's only processed 80 MB of mail so far. It's a 350 Mhz box that I'm running it on, and clamav must be pretty CPU intensive. Somebody tipped me off to the following procmail config, which filters on

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-18 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 at 15:08:32 -0700, Michael D. Crawford wrote: I've been using formail, procmail and clamav to disinect a 200 MB mailbox, and since last night it's only processed 80 MB of mail so far. It's a 350 Mhz That's a very slow progress! I suspect you use clamscan. So clamscan is

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-17 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Somebody yesterday said to use formail to convert maildirs back to mbox format. I've looked at the formail man page and I can't figure out how to do it. Can you tell me? I've successfully used a tool called yammc.pl to convert my mailboxes to maildir. There are several programs that claim to

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-17 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Michael D. Crawford wrote: Somebody yesterday said to use formail to convert maildirs back to mbox format. I've looked at the formail man page and I can't figure out how to do it. May I humbly re-suggest my method posted April 8 ? cat mbox | formail -s procmail -m

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-17 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I think the virus that's assaulting me is what this page calls the PE_ZAFI.B virus: http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=PE_ZAFI.BVSect=T The clamav database lists a virus called Worm.Zafi.B. I'm still working on downloading my mailbox. I copied it to my home

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Randle
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 19:16, Michael D. Crawford wrote: I think the virus that's assaulting me is what this page calls the PE_ZAFI.B virus: http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=PE_ZAFI.BVSect=T The clamav database lists a virus called Worm.Zafi.B. I'm still

[Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread Michael D. Crawford
In the last two days I have received five hundred megabytes of spam. I'm pretty sure it's mostly viruses. I'd like to find a way to delete individual virus-infected messages from my mailbox, but the clamscan --mbox command stops scanning upon finding the first virus, and if I use the --remove

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread Jim Maul
Quoting Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the last two days I have received five hundred megabytes of spam. I'm pretty sure it's mostly viruses. I'd like to find a way to delete individual virus-infected messages from my mailbox, but the clamscan --mbox command stops scanning upon finding

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 at 7:40:38 -0700, Michael D. Crawford wrote: [...] What I think would work would be to unpack my mailbox file into a directory of individual messages, one in each file, and use clamscan --mbox --remove on that directory, and then collect all the messages back into an

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Michael D. Crawford wrote: I'd like to find a way to delete individual virus-infected messages from my mailbox, but the formail / procmail . I sent a detailed method for doing this to the list in the begining of April, check the archives.

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread Noel Jones
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 07:40:38AM -0700, Michael D. Crawford wrote: What I think would work would be to unpack my mailbox file into a directory of individual messages, one in each file, and use clamscan --mbox --remove on that directory, and then collect all the messages back into an

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread Bert Koelewijn
Jim Maul wrote: Quoting Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the last two days I have received five hundred megabytes of spam. I'm pretty sure it's mostly viruses. I'd like to find a way to delete individual virus-infected messages from my mailbox, but the clamscan --mbox command stops

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread Jeff Smelser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 June 2004 11:09 am, Bert Koelewijn wrote: Oh, come on! This is just shortcoming of ClamAV. Why have a --mbox option if you can't identify the infected email?! RAV did this better. The idea wasn't to do an entire file, it was to do

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
This is a good reason to use maildirs. Jim Oh, come on! This is just shortcoming of ClamAV. Why have a --mbox option if you can't identify the infected email?! RAV did this better. Bert So? Last time I checked RAV wasn't exactly free. If it's not done in CVS yet then I suppose it might get done

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread Jim Maul
Quoting B. van Ouwerkerk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is a good reason to use maildirs. Jim Oh, come on! This is just shortcoming of ClamAV. Why have a --mbox option if you can't identify the infected email?! RAV did this better. Bert So? Last time I checked RAV wasn't exactly free. If it's not done

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread Graham Toal
I read in the FAQ that you don't have an option to disinfect files, only to report on or delete them. I would think it wouldn't be too hard to disinfect a mailbox file though. This might help clean out your mailbox. cc -o clamfilter clamfilter.c mv /var/mail/mybox mybox ./clamfilter mybox

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
FWIW, I would go for a solution with procmail :-) Just curious, if clamav was running on the server, how did the infected message get into the mbox in the first place? Jim Clamav is not the same as clamav-milter :) so if someone prefers not to use milter or whatever to get viri before they hit

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread Bert Koelewijn
B. van Ouwerkerk wrote: This is a good reason to use maildirs. Jim Oh, come on! This is just shortcoming of ClamAV. Why have a --mbox option if you can't identify the infected email?! RAV did this better. Bert So? Last time I checked RAV wasn't exactly free. If it's not done in CVS yet then I

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread Jim Maul
Quoting B. van Ouwerkerk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FWIW, I would go for a solution with procmail :-) Just curious, if clamav was running on the server, how did the infected message get into the mbox in the first place? Jim Clamav is not the same as clamav-milter :) so if someone prefers not to use

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread Bill Randle
Bert Koelewijn wrote: B. van Ouwerkerk wrote: This is a good reason to use maildirs. Jim Oh, come on! This is just shortcoming of ClamAV. Why have a --mbox option if you can't identify the infected email?! RAV did this better. Bert So? Last time I checked RAV wasn't exactly free. If it's not

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread jef moskot
Just curious, if clamav was running on the server, how did the infected message get into the mbox in the first place? I've experienced this problem before when a new worm hits before Clam has can detect it. Usually no more than a few infected messages get through before Clam catches up. I'd

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
The viruses seem to be addressed to all the permutations of the alphabet in the username, with the domain always being goingware.com. Perhaps this was meant to deliver the virus all to different people, instead my personal email is being DOSed by this virus. Ask your hosting provider (or do it

Re: [Clamav-users] How to disinfect an mbox file?

2004-06-16 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
Clamav is not the same as clamav-milter :) so if someone prefers not to use milter or whatever to get viri before they hit the users mailbox they get the mail into the mailbox. I'm running clamav-milter and find it s cool.. Ah...im running qmail so there is no milter. All this milter talk is