Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-04-18 Thread Jinwon Lee
I have a feeling that that is what ClamXav is la On 27/03/2015, at 8:10 pm, Al Varnell alvarn...@mac.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:17PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: Forgot to include dmg files are as described when mounted - else they are disk images (cpio). I don't know what the

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-04-06 Thread Al Varnell
I ran some tests after my last posting to answer just this question, but results were mixed so I was waiting for an authoritative answer. Since we haven’t heard yet, I’ll post my results. First I made my own .dmg with an eicar test file on-board. Running clamscan —debut on the file did not

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-30 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
On Mar 29, 2015, at 7:57 AM, Dennis Peterson denni...@inetnw.commailto:denni...@inetnw.com wrote: On 3/29/15 4:55 AM, TR Shaw wrote: On Mar 29, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Dennis Peterson denni...@inetnw.commailto:denni...@inetnw.com wrote: On 3/28/15 10:43 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for that. I

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-30 Thread Steven Morgan
Al, Could you please open a ticket at bugzilla.clamav.net and attach your EicarTest.dmg and also the command used to create it? We'll take a look at what's going on. Thanks, Steve On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Al Varnell alvarn...@mac.com wrote: I sent this out last night, but it must have

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-29 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 29 Mar 2015, Denis Peterson wrote: ... I meant dd, not cpio. But that won't work either ... Does kpartx help? I use it for mounting bits of assorted disc images, mostly when I'm playing around with Windows VMs. -- 73, Ged. ___

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/29/15 4:55 AM, TR Shaw wrote: On Mar 29, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Dennis Peterson denni...@inetnw.com wrote: On 3/28/15 10:43 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for that. I guess ‘Hash Value’ refers to the ClamAV identifying the .dmg as a known file that contains virus/es. Jinwon That was the

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-29 Thread TR Shaw
On Mar 29, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Dennis Peterson denni...@inetnw.com wrote: On 3/28/15 10:43 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for that. I guess ‘Hash Value’ refers to the ClamAV identifying the .dmg as a known file that contains virus/es. Jinwon That was the case too for password protected

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-29 Thread TR Shaw
On Mar 29, 2015, at 12:24 PM, G.W. Haywood cla...@jubileegroup.co.uk wrote: Hi there, On Sun, 29 Mar 2015, Denis Peterson wrote: ... I meant dd, not cpio. But that won't work either ... Does kpartx help? I use it for mounting bits of assorted disc images, mostly when I'm playing

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/29/15 12:08 AM, Al Varnell wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 09:50 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: It should be possible to use cpio to extract the contents to a stream and feed that into the ClamAV engine OS X does include cpio but I have been unsuccessful in getting it to do anything with a

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-29 Thread Al Varnell
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 09:50 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: It should be possible to use cpio to extract the contents to a stream and feed that into the ClamAV engine OS X does include cpio but I have been unsuccessful in getting it to do anything with a .dmg. cpio -h tells me it’s bsdcpio

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Jinwon Lee
Thanks for the responses. I am not a computer expert so I might not fully understand all that has been discussed but it sounds like ClamXav extracts(decompose?) archive files like zip, RAR and then scan. But with .dmg file it is uncertain that it does the same thing. It sounds like ClamXav is

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Al Varnell
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 06:35 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for the responses. I am not a computer expert so I might not fully understand all that has been discussed but it sounds like ClamXav extracts(decompose?) archive files like zip, RAR and then scan. But with .dmg file it is

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Al Varnell
I sent this out last night, but it must have been rejected for length or something, so I’ll remove the lengthy results of the third test and quotes to see if that works. -Al- == I ran some tests after my last posting to answer just this question, but results were mixed so I was

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/28/15 6:48 PM, Al Varnell wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 06:35 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for the responses. I am not a computer expert so I might not fully understand all that has been discussed but it sounds like ClamXav extracts(decompose?) archive files like zip, RAR and then scan.

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Jinwon Lee
Yes. It makes sense. On 29/03/2015, at 6:45 pm, Dennis Peterson denni...@inetnw.com wrote: On 3/28/15 10:43 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for that. I guess ‘Hash Value’ refers to the ClamAV identifying the .dmg as a known file that contains virus/es. Jinwon That was the case too

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/28/15 10:43 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for that. I guess ‘Hash Value’ refers to the ClamAV identifying the .dmg as a known file that contains virus/es. Jinwon That was the case too for password protected zip files. If you can't burst the contents you condemn the wrapper. dp

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Jinwon Lee
Thanks for that. I guess ‘Hash Value’ refers to the ClamAV identifying the .dmg as a known file that contains virus/es. Jinwon On 29/03/2015, at 2:48 pm, Al Varnell alvarn...@mac.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 06:35 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for the responses. I am not a

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
Forgot to include dmg files are as described when mounted - else they are disk images (cpio). I don't know what the clam product does with unmounted disk images. dp On 3/26/15 11:09 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: The dmg files are logical structures. They are comprised of Unix directories and

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-27 Thread Al Varnell
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:17PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: Forgot to include dmg files are as described when mounted - else they are disk images (cpio). I don't know what the clam product does with unmounted disk images. dp That’s correct. There have been a handful (nine) .dmg hash

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
The dmg files are logical structures. They are comprised of Unix directories and files and clam doesn't need to treat them differently than any other directory tree. if you have support compiled in for zip, RAR, TAR, and several other archiving formats it should decompose them and scan each of

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-27 Thread Al Varnell
For fastest, most efficient answers to questions such as these, visit the ClamXav Forum http://www.clamxav.com/BB/. This mail-list is for users of the ClamAV® scan engine on all platforms. -Al- On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:44PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Hi I am a new member. I am a Mac user

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-27 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
Dmg scanning was added a couple of versions back. -- Joel Esler Sent from my iPhone On Mar 27, 2015, at 3:11 AM, Al Varnell alvarn...@mac.commailto:alvarn...@mac.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:17PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: Forgot to include dmg files are as described when mounted -

[clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-26 Thread Jinwon Lee
Hi I am a new member. I am a Mac user and so I use ClamXav to scan my files. My question is: ‘Does ClamXav scan what’s inside Compressed files like .RAR, .zip…. and Package files like .dmg?’Because I feel ClamXav takes considerably longer to scan the extracted file/s compared to the

[clamav-users] ClamXav

2011-03-29 Thread Al Varnell
Why is Mac OS X's ClamXav no longer listed on the Third Party Packages page? Sent from Janet's iPad -Al- -- Al Varnell ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamXav will not open

2008-09-29 Thread fchan
Please this support forum for ClamXav: http://www.markallan.co.uk/BB/ I use clamXav for awhile now and I never saw this error before. My guess you no Developer tools on your system which can give you this type error since clamXav needs this to compile clamav. Developer Tools with Xcode which

[Clamav-users] ClamXav will not open

2008-09-28 Thread malcolm . rowe
Hello, I cannot get ClamXav to work anymore This is what I get when I try to open the app Can someone advise what I have done wrong or what is missing Last login: Sun Sep 28 17:09:02 on ttyp2 /Applications/Utilities/ClamXav/ClamXav.app/Contents/MacOS/ClamXav; exit Welcome to Darwin! g5:~ MRowe$

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamXav will not open

2008-09-28 Thread Stephen Gran
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 05:15:00PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello, I cannot get ClamXav to work anymore This is what I get when I try to open the app Can someone advise what I have done wrong or what is missing Last login: Sun Sep 28 17:09:02 on ttyp2