[Declude.Virus] RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude stopped logging, high CPU usage, slow processing

2013-04-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
If you upgraded to Declude 4.11.09 to avoid the AVG licence issue, you’ll find that it was a bandaid, and that build’s usefulness also expired contemporaneously with David and Linda’s employee status, on January 31, 2013. C:\IMailstrings decludeproc.exe| grep LicBeg LicBeg, Ver=1.1,

RE: [Declude.Virus] Test

2012-01-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Too quiet? Problem solved, like a BOSS. -Original Message- From: johnl...@eservicesforyou.com [mailto:johnl...@eservicesforyou.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 8:33 AM To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Subject: [Declude.Virus] Test Sorry for the test folks, new email setup and it is

RE: [Declude.Virus] Upgrade 4.6.35 AVG not scanning - FIX

2009-06-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
David, this log excerpt seems to indicate that my AVG hasn't been working since May 1st 2009. Is this correct? C:\IMail\Spoolgrep -c smd Scanned: Error in virus scanner vir.log vir0401.log:0 vir0402.log:0 vir0403.log:0 vir0404.log:0 vir0405.log:0 vir0406.log:0 vir0407.log:0 vir0408.log:0

RE: [Declude.Virus] Upgrade 4.6.35 AVG not scanning - FIX

2009-06-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
:00 PM To: declude.virus@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] Upgrade 4.6.35 AVG not scanning - FIX Not for everyone, but certainly for your server that would be true if that is what your logs indicate. From: supp...@declude.com [mailto:supp...@declude.com] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew

RE: [Declude.Virus] AVG Update

2008-12-29 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
That's very good news, David. I suggest an entry on the Declude.com website, either public or in the members' account area, that shows the current datestamp for when an update was made available on the Declude.com webserver, and if relevant, the update number that AVG gets it. In this way,

RE: [Declude.Virus] Force AVG update

2008-12-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The updates are currently 4 days behind... I believe that fetching and approving the updates from AVG, then publishing them on the Declude server is a manual process that Declude support staff must perform, and that it's not a reliable process. I think it best that we consider the AVG scanner to

RE: [Declude.Virus] F-PROT 6 vs ClamAV SOSDG

2008-06-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
For what it's worth, I never move messages from HOLD to SPOOL. When I do move false positives out, I fix the problem in my configuration, so that the same circumstance doesn't happen again, and then I move the files from the HOLD to the PROC folder. By re-scanning them, they get virus scanned

RE: [Declude.Virus] bloodhound exploit 163 - Slipping Through

2007-10-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Try this on for size: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/1303.html Malicious PDF file (report.pdf or debt.2007.pdf or overdraft.2007.10.26.pdf or so) has been massively spammed through email during last hour and the spam run is still continuing. Andrew. -Original

RE: [Declude.Virus]

2007-07-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Brief, and to to the point. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Catuogno Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:54 AM To: Declude Virus Subject: [Declude.Virus] Marc Catuogno MIS Director Prudential Rand Realty 845-825-8025

RE: [Declude.Virus] FYI Storm worm mutates to incorporate Independence Day text

2007-07-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 1:23 PM To: declude.virus@declude.com Subject: [Declude.Virus] FYI Storm worm mutates to incorporate Independence Day text It has been updated to broadcast text that incorporates 4th of July

RE: [Declude.Virus] More info about encrypted RAR virus and Declude failures

2007-05-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Without offering up the exact how-to, I can point out that the SIZE test and a BODY CONTAINS combination would likely help in Declude JunkMail, and that you would have to stop banning RAR files in Declude EVA. Judicious use of the SIZE test would help Gary to HOLD only small RAR files, whether

[Declude.Virus] Interesting notes on recent virus activity from Kaspersky

2007-05-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?calendar=2007-04 For example, here is point 8 of 10: * Most Common Malicious Program in Email Traffic - Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.q http://www.viruslist.com/en/viruses/encyclopedia?virusid=22760 , which has been around for years, but still managed to

RE: [Declude.Virus] Interesting notes on recent virus activity from Kaspersky

2007-05-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
activity from Kaspersky Or does this show that there are too many people out there who don't have anti-virus software on their computers? Original Message From: Colbeck, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:11 PM To: declude.virus@declude.com

RE: [Declude.Virus] new virus with .rar attachment

2007-04-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Gary, you beat them by a day with your own assessment, but Symantec blogged about this virus twice today: http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/04/spam _attack_rared_trojan.html An interesting point is that they have blocked 1.2 million messages by tackling the text of

RE: [Declude.Virus] virus via e-mail getting rare

2007-03-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Virus via email is dwindling, but not dying. I regularly see scams reported where people are asked to open the attachment, which purports to be some purpose but is of course a virus. For example: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#1149 From my own content, I see that old viruses are not

RE: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot Version 6

2007-03-13 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
F-prot is $50 for 10 licenses per year. $5 per machine per year. Version 6 Why is that not still reasonable? Because that is not the correct price. Following the product link on their home page: http://www.f-prot.com/products/corporate_users/win/ At the bottom it says: To use the

RE: [Declude.Virus] Current Version of Clam AV

2007-03-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
My two cents (I don't run ClamAV)... Observations: - .vir directories are orphaned - .vir directories are locked by something and can not be deleted without stopping some service(s) - .vir directories are only created on Scott's system when ClamAV is run as a service and Sandy's

RE: [Declude.Virus] Any one heard about or seen this one yet?

2007-01-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Yes, and it should be old news by now. http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2071 The end of the page lists the four executables to ban, if you don't trust your antivirus software, i.e. #Jan-18-2007 AC New fake news clips virus called Small.Dam by F-Secure and W32/Downloader.AYDY by F-Prot

RE: [Declude.Virus] Any one heard about or seen this one yet?

2007-01-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 1:01 PM To: declude.virus@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] Any one heard about or seen this one yet? Yes, and it should be old news by now. http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid

RE: [Declude.Virus] Any one heard about or seen this one yet?

2007-01-19 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
New variations have arisen... No surprise there, either. http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2071 No word on new explicit filenames, yet. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Friday, January 19

[Declude.Virus] Large spam run of malware in Germany?

2007-01-14 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
If you allow .exe in Declude Virus product, you may want to add: BANNAME RechnungGEZ.pdf.exe to your virus.cfg file. See this antivirus company's blog entry: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#1080 There's a fairly large malware spam run going on in Germany. The emails claim to be

RE: [Declude.Virus] I'm currently on a business trip down south and will be returning January 5th, 2007. If t

2007-01-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I think I received 36 of them. Andrew. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Edmonds Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:55 PM To: declude.virus@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] I'm currently on a business trip down

[Declude.Virus] New virus to add to your banned names in virus.cfg

2006-12-30 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1988 BANNAME Greeting Card.exe BANNAME Greeting Postcard.exe BANNAME GreetingCard.exe Which may be related to a rash these that my mailserver received on Dec 28th, as the executables are the same size but contain may differences: BANNAME postcard.exe As of

RE: [Declude.Virus] New virus to add to your banned names in virus.cfg

2006-12-30 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
p.s. No, the conversation thread at the end of my posting was not relevant to the antivirus tip, that was simply poor copy and paste on my part. Andrew 8) --- This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type

RE: [Declude.Virus] New virus to add to your banned names in virus.cfg

2006-12-30 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
names in virus.cfg Andrew.. Why not block any .exe attachments? In our system AVG is detecting it. Kami -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 12:11 PM To: declude.virus

RE: [Declude.Virus] AUTOFORGE

2006-10-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I suggested adding STRATION a week or more ago. Likewise, the string WAREZOV should be added to the AUTOFORGE database (or your own virus.cfg e.g. FORGINGVIRUS WAREZOV). There have been many interations of this virus, and according to F-Secure, the creators are still pumping out new

RE: [Declude.Virus] New Virus?

2006-10-10 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Sounds like a very popular eBay scam, not a virus. Was there actually a hostile application attached? Submit the executable to: http://www.virustotal.com/en/indexf.html Or: http://virusscan.jotti.org/ I believe that both services share unknown executables with the antivirus vendors. Or you

[Declude.Virus] Another forging malware, Scano

2006-10-05 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Another mass-mailing worm, this time a variant of an .HTA attached worm that was first seen in April 2006. F-Prot users who don't want to be bothered by their alerts for this sender-forging-malware can add this to their virus.cfg ... FORGINGVIRUS VBS/Scano@ Here are there results of my

RE: [Declude.Virus] Bug in mismatched extensions causes backscatter on spam

2006-10-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
.. I hope that Declude will agree with Matt's point that backscatter must be avoided. There is ample precedent,for examplein that the BOUNCE action was renamed to BOUNCEONLYIFYOUMUST to prevent backscatter. Andrew. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [Declude.Virus] stration work

2006-10-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Those of us still running F-Prot* as a primary virus scanner will want to add one or both of these to their virus.cfg in order to block notifications for detection of the Stration malware: FORGINGVIRUS W32/Tricky-Malware-based!Maximus FORGINGVIRUS Tricky-Malware-based! The first is the

RE: [Declude.Virus] Oversized.RAR FOUND in ClamAV

2006-09-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Disclaimer: I haven't implemented ClamAV with Declude, so I'm guessing here... It sounds like the max-ratio solution is a red herring. It sounds like ClamAV returned an error because it couldn't scan the overlarge file (compressed or not). It sounds like Gary's configuration is quarantining

RE: [Declude.Virus] new virus?

2006-08-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
My logs tell me that we received more than the usual number of viruses yesterday. These were split into two groups, a version of Bagle that was released back in June, and a new worm which Trend Micro calls WORM_STRATION.BD In the samples I looked at, the messages were fake bounces with an

RE: [Declude.Virus] new virus?

2006-08-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
The Internet Storm Center also notes two items... That a new-ish botnet has been found: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1657 Previously, that there is elevated port scanning for 139/TCP: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1654 In that second link,they note two malwares that are

RE: [Declude.Virus] New Virus: zipped word doc with Macro-Virus

2006-06-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Marc, check the contents of your c:\ for 666INSE_1.EXE as this is the dropper file that the macro drops. If it's there, the macro was executed, and the dropper has probably also download further malware. Modern versions of Office will, by default, not execute the macro so you might be safe. I

RE: [Declude.Virus] New Virus: zipped word doc with Macro-Virus

2006-06-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I haven't seen any yet; I don't know if F-Prot is catching them. From the published information at the antivirus vendors' sites, I'm using the BANNAME feature, e.g. BANNAME My_Notebook.doc And further, I catch most of the viruses as junkmail because they typically come from zombie machines, so

RE: [Declude.Virus] New Virus: zipped word doc with Macro-Virus

2006-06-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:14 PM To: declude.virus@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] New Virus: zipped word doc with Macro-Virus I haven't seen any yet; I don't know if F-Prot is catching them. From the published

RE: [Declude.Virus] New Virus: zipped word doc with Macro-Virus

2006-06-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-062006.html#0909 The writeup is interesting in the follow-on details but the information that Markus posted earlier is more helpful to us in keeping the darn thing out of users' mailboxes. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [Declude.Virus] New Virus: zipped word doc with Macro-Virus

2006-06-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
JT Declude, this is a feature who's time has come. Hear, hear! The ability to ban filenames that are contained in archives would be a good feature, and most of the code must be in place, because Declude Virus already pulls apart at least the zip file format for selective file scanning. It is

RE: [Declude.Virus] Entry in Event Log

2006-06-22 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
This came up just last Friday, Mark. Here's the end of that thread on the mail archive website: http://www.mail-archive.com/declude.virus@declude.com/msg13314.html Andrew 8) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark ReimerSent: Thursday, June 22,

RE: [Declude.Virus] another new virus

2006-06-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Ditto. F-Prot notices that the zip file is password protected and I can see that there is a very-Bagle-ish gif fileof the password. David Barker's earlier response of using: BANEXT EZIP in your virus.cfg will work to catch these. I received a single copy, and it was from a likely

RE: [Declude.Virus] another new virus

2006-06-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
... and here'sone writeup on that new Bagle: http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM%5FBAGLE%2EFNVSect=T Andrew 8) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, AndrewSent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 1:17 PMTo:

RE: [Declude.Virus] new virus

2006-06-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
It might be this, if my F-Prot is more up to date than yours, as mine has identified a few zip files with a plus sign in the name as W32/Brepibot.gen http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-062006.html#0902 The fake HELO names were CNN.com and TradersWorld.com if that's any use.

RE: [Declude.Virus] new virus

2006-06-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Backdoor.Naninf.E TheHacker 5.9.8.160 06.16.2006 no virus found Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:21 PM To: declude.virus@declude.com Subject: RE

RE: [Declude.Virus] new virus

2006-06-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
: 416 322-0333 Cell: 416 805-HELP (4357) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 5:31 PM To: declude.virus@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] new virus

RE: [Declude.Virus] the ebay spoof spam stuff

2006-06-14 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Bob, drop an email to the handler on duty at http://isc.sans.org/ for some general advice. They may also have some specific reference to point you to regarding a vulnerability or they may recognize the modus operandi of what you saw. I don't recognize it, myself. Generally speaking, your best

RE: [Declude.Virus] Built in virus detector

2006-05-03 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
(Another country heard from) Release announcements? Why, that's why I subscribed to Declude.Releases on May-11-2005 ... The only message I've kept (the only one received!?) was from Barry on Sep-26-2005 and had the subject: Declude 3.0 Availability Andrew. -Original Message-

RE: [Declude.Virus] Possible virus?

2006-04-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Possible virus? It's been years, but I do remember that there were several viruses that would take random MS Office documents off the infected user's computer as "cover" when it sent itself out. Their names, though, I don't remember. Andrew 8) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot Switches

2006-03-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
#Dec-10-2004 AC Note that I've added 'ai' and 'packed' to the switches suggested in the manual. The noboot and nomem options # are not listed when you ask fpcmd.exe for help, but they are definitely in the logs. SCANFILED:\F-Prot\fpcmd.exe /ai /server /archive=5 /packed

RE: [Declude.Virus] ClamAV sanesecurity definitions

2006-03-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Scott, Are you running ClamAV with the SaneSecurity antiphishing signatures as an external spam test in Declude Pro, or as an antivirus engine in Declude Virus Pro? Andrew 8) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott FisherSent: Wednesday, March

RE: [Declude.Virus] language specific messages

2006-02-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Tu peut l'escrite en Francais et Espanol dans la meme recip.eml; je vu beaucoup de cette technique en Canada, mais c'est en Anglais et Francais. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Goran Jovanovic Sent: Thursday, February

RE: [Declude.Virus] language specific messages

2006-02-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Goran, I actually avoid any bounce and alerts to recipients and senders. I only use alerting to send virus alerts inbound to our postmaster account. I do this because I know firsthand how hard it is to keep junk alerts from the Internet from coming in to my users' mailboxes. Likewise, I

RE: [Declude.Virus] language specific messages

2006-02-23 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
$.junkmail file for this test I tag at 10 and delete at 30 so this would only trigger on legit messages Just a thought Goran Jovanovic Omega Network Solutions -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.Virus- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew

RE: [Declude.Virus] [IMail Forum] Realistic virus threat?

2006-02-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
My raw speculation: 1) It is missed because the virus.cfg is using the "PRESCANON" switch (the default, I believe) and the declude.exe application does not decode the MIME or other coding as flexibly as a mail client would, or makes an uninformed decision about what is an object worth

RE: [Declude.Virus] [IMail Forum] Realistic virus threat?

2006-02-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
3) On a very busy server, Declude may be aborting the scan because it is taking too long. The default is 60 seconds. ANSWER: Use SCANNERTIMEOUT90 in the virus.cfg or some other time value of your choosing. Andrew 8) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [Declude.Virus] Encoded viruses...worried

2006-02-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
zip all of my MG logs nightly,so it isn't practical to search through all ofthem. MG Matt MG Colbeck, Andrew wrote: MG MG On the plus side, there are mitigating circumstances... MG   MG First, let me point out that although the antivirus MG

RE: [Declude.Virus] Encoded viruses...worried

2006-01-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
John, the other formats are common (or, were common) on Macintosh and Unix based systems for binary attachments and for attached messages. Eudora for Windows used to expose several of these formats for message construction. They've fallen into disuse in favour of MIME attachments, but they

RE: [Declude.Virus] Encoded viruses...worried

2006-01-31 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
On the plus side, there are mitigating circumstances... First, let me point out that although the antivirus companies will lag behind the virus authors, the antivirus guys aren't sleeping. For many years, the bad guys have been using encoding methods and 3rd party applications to

RE: [Declude.Virus] Feature request: DELETEVIRUSNAME

2006-01-28 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
We've all made good points [except Matt, he's apparently high on life... ;) ] and that is precisely the value of the debating club we've formed here. Excellent features have been put into Declude precisely because of the debating club. When Scott was the sole developer, this debate and feedback

[Declude.Virus] Feature request: DELETEVIRUSNAME automagic

2006-01-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Markus would find this handy (as would other die-hards who are often see to post in this forum) and would be willing to maintain a small list of entries for which he would like this behaviour. However, in addition to the FORGINGVIRUS DNS lookup feature that Declude already implements*, perhaps

RE: [Declude.Virus] Feature request: DELETEVIRUSNAME automagic

2006-01-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
No Matt, it wouldn't be a complete solution for you orme. We don't trust DELETE actions at all. Markus however, is ok with a DELETE action, as with many others, so I'm pretty confident that they would be ok with an autodelete as well, while trusting that Declude.com isn't going to make a

[Declude.Virus] My quick and dirty virus stats

2006-01-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Just because it's easy to produce... This is from the viruses that get caught as spam from Dec 01 2005 through yesterday: 13 Suspicious program in Archive 1 Suspicious program 5 Unknown Virus 57

RE: [Declude.Virus] Feature request: DELETEVIRUSNAME

2006-01-27 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
IIRC, the HOLD action was where the risk came in. Messages that are held by Declude using AVAFTERJM and then manually re-queued (via, say, the old SpamReview app) would NOT be scanned for viruses at all, since re-queued messages bypass Declude altogether. snip At the very least,

RE: [Declude.Virus] Feature request: DELETEVIRUSNAME

2006-01-26 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Do you mean this script on my disk who creates one hour each day with 100% CPU usage? Markus, I found that a pretty fun bit of sarcasm. But I have a dry sense of humour. It sounds like you're not using AVAFTERJM so that you catch viruses as viruses and spam as spam. In this scenario I'm

RE: [Declude.Virus] Mail.zip from AOL Encrypted Messaging Service?

2006-01-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Mail.zip from AOL Encrypted Messaging Service? You've caught an instance of the "Feebs" worm. HTA in email should automatically be suspect. I won't go as far as to say it should be banned, but it's not a bad idea. Myself, I've never seen an "HTML help file" sent in email. There is

RE: [Declude.Virus] New Virus?

2006-01-18 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
No, you shouldn't block .mim attachments. The .mim attachment means that there was a MIME formatted, which is encoding that converts binary attachments and non-ASCII text to nice and safe 7 bit ASCII encoding to make SMTP servers happy. You are mostly likely to see this when an entire

RE: [Declude.Virus] New Virus?

2006-01-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
A kapser was detected on my F-Prot based system today. I'm attaching the output of the scan from virustotal.com for your interest. I also scanned it with my TrendMicro which detects it by a different name: http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM%5FG REW%2EA You

RE: [Declude.Virus] New Virus?

2006-01-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I agree completely. I use the postmaster notification only, so only internal notifications happen. I use the FORGINGVIRUS statements to limit what we have to see. Recently, we had a single "macro virus" type issue, and that was where a HTML based Microsoft Word document used a document

RE: [Declude.Virus] New Virus?

2006-01-17 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
begin to enhance their naming convention by an initial name of the av-company. Something like: F-ProtW32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:21 PM

RE: [Declude.Virus] New Virus?

2006-01-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I haven't seen it. It's also not unusual for F-Prot to have a signature for a virus, but no write up on their website. If the virus was caught, you could submit the attachment to one of the free websites that will check an executable against multiple virus engines and give you a summary of which

RE: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot 3.16f

2006-01-10 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Another buffer overflow has been found in ClamAV and ClamWin, this time in decompressing UPX packed executables, which is fairly common for virus and spyware variants. See: http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/01/clam_antivirus_.html The current ClamWin version is 0.88 here:

RE: [Declude.Virus] Sober.z

2006-01-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I haven't checked today's results with fpcmd 3.16f, but here are yesterday's quick stats with fpcmd 3.16e 8 W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3 W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 27 W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10 W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9 W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 81

RE: [Declude.Virus] Sober.z

2006-01-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Richie You visit illegal websites You_visit_illegal_websites Your IP was logged Your_IP_was_logged Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 8:53 PM To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Subject

RE: [Declude.Virus] Sober.X Variant

2006-01-05 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I just saw two today. This may not be what you're seeing, JT, but here goes: What I saw were two broken Sober.X messages that were bounced with the original message (the viral message) truncated. F-Prot didn't trigger on the broken attachment and the bounce didn't trigger my custom filters to

[Declude.Virus] F-Prot and WMF

2006-01-05 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
For what it's worth, I just tested the 3.16d and 3.16e versions of fpcmd.exe and they behaved identically on the single sample I had. They return errorlevel = 8 (suspicious file found) and here is the text when run manually (as opposed to within Declude): c:\virus-quarantine\wmf\bg.wmf Contains

[Declude.Virus] OT: Microsoft will release the WMF patch today instead of next Tuesday

2006-01-05 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/advance.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-001.mspx Andrew 8) --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude EVA www.declude.com] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe,

[Declude.Virus] Another vulnerability in antivirus software exposed

2005-12-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Ouch. Not in the wild yet (most of these vulnerabilities don't get to be in the wild), but serious nonetheless due to it's potential. If you're not running keeping your Symantec up to date with a subscription, you should:

RE: [Declude.Virus] Where to send exe's to check if they are a virus?

2005-12-15 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
You can upload it to this website where it will be scanned by all the leading virus vendors that haven't sent them a cease-and-desist order: http://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.html And you can also upload it to here to have their 'bot run the application in a sandbox and report back to you

RE: [Declude.Virus] New Sober to be released, possible variation?

2005-11-15 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
There are very interesting details in Trend Micro's writeup. http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM%5FS OBER%2EADVSect=T i.e. it uses its own SMTP server plus a hardcoded list of accounts and IDs at 27 ISPs, and that it terminates the Microsoft Windows Malicious

RE: [Declude.Virus] New Sober to be released, possible variation?

2005-11-15 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
are catching them. That way new variants that use the names are caught before definitions are available. Darin. - Original Message - From: Colbeck, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:57 AM Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] New

[Declude.Virus] New Sober to be released Nov-15-2005 ?

2005-11-14 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Hmmm, now that's interesting. http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#0705 Andrew. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type unsubscribe Declude.Virus.The archives can be found at

[Declude.Virus] OT: From Phisher to just a fish

2005-11-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
A 20 year old man goes from abusing phish to being abused as a fish: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,69480,00.html Andrew 8) --- This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type unsubscribe Declude.Virus.

[Declude.Virus] F-Prot zip vulnerability reported

2005-11-04 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Ouch. F-Prot is very popular on this group. This vulnerability may never turn into an exploit, but it's better that we keep abreast of issues like this. F-Prot Antivirus Lets Remote Users Bypass the Scanning Engine with Specially Crafted ZIP Files http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=820

RE: [Declude.Virus] Blast of zips coming in

2005-11-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Current F-Prot definitions catch this as a Mitglieder variant, and Trend Micro reports that they are investigating Bagle.AB The zip files contain a non-password protected executable; I've noticed the following names: Loader.exe t_535475.exe Here is an F-Prot report on one catch:

[Declude.Virus] Another virus seeding run

2005-10-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Forewarned is fore-armed. Blogged by F-Secure here: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#0682 With a writeup on the virus itself here: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/rbot.shtml The email seeding run doesn't contain virus, just a scam plus a URL. I haven't seen any yet, so I can't comment on

RE: [Declude.Virus] Slightly OT: Encrypting or Securing Email Content

2005-10-11 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
How about cock of the walk jokes? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 2:44 PM To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] Slightly OT: Encrypting or

RE: [Declude.Virus] New variant as of 15 minutes ago

2005-10-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
#New Sober.R aka CME-151 per http://cme.mitre.org... expectGerman right-wingpropaganda in a few days Oct-05-2005 ACBANNAME pword_change.zipBANNAME screen_photo.zipBANNAME KlassenFoto.zipBANNAME Regis.info.zipBANNAME Privat-Foto.zipBANNAME Brief.zip banned extensions for both flavours as

RE: [Declude.Virus] PING

2005-09-29 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
PONG -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Barker Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 8:15 AM To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Subject: [Declude.Virus] PING PING --- This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To

RE: [Declude.Virus] Seemingly bad virus this morning

2005-09-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
FYI, Kaspersky reports that they're now up to something like 20 new variants of Bagle between Monday and Tuesday. Andrew 8)

RE: [Declude.Virus] Seemingly bad virus this morning

2005-09-20 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
... and F-Secure notes that they've hit a record of publishing 12 pattern updates in one day. Andrew 8) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MattSent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:28 AMTo: Declude.Virus@declude.comSubject: Re: [Declude.Virus]

RE: [Declude.Virus] McAfee DailyDAT download location change.

2005-09-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Mr. Obvious says: You would have to change the URL plus the name of the file you're unzipping! So that I didn't have to change my script much, I changed my wget line to: wget http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/beta_packages/win_netware_betadat.zip -O dailyscan.zip The -O

RE: [Declude.Virus] Seemingly bad virus this morning

2005-09-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Hmm, yes. Something along the lines of: wget ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/antivirus/datfiles/4.x/update.ini and then parsing out the line: FileName=dat-4579.zip or DATVersion=4579 in order to construct the filename... but it seems like re-inventing the wheel. The readme.txt talks abouta

RE: [Declude.Virus] Seemingly bad virus this morning

2005-09-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Scott, in various older versions of wget, the -N parameteras well as the --header=Accept-Encoding:gzip parameterplain old didn't work. Pick up the current version here: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/#Files andit should be fine. Andrew 8) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Declude.Virus] Seemingly bad virus this morning

2005-09-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
which is all well and good, but... It worked fine for the update.ini, but not for the .zip file.The currentstable versionofwgetdoes in download a full file every time. Andrew 8) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colbeck, AndrewSent: Monday,

RE: [Declude.Virus] Seemingly bad virus this morning

2005-09-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
A very basic: wget -N http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/beta_packages/win_netware_betadat.zip was not working when Scott (and then I) tried it. But it does now, including with the -O parameter. I'd hazard a guess that they have some kind of front-end webcache or cluster, and

RE: [Declude.Virus] Sudden Internet Slowdown

2005-09-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
According to this: http://loadrunner.uits.iu.edu/weathermaps/abilene/ Most of the major links on the Internet are very busy. Interestingly, the Houston-Atlanta link is back up, and was hard down due to Katrina for a week. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Declude.Virus] Sudden Internet Slowdown

2005-09-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
No problem, Darin. We'll have Newfoundland reboot it. They're half an hour off of everybody else. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darin Cox Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 10:55 AM To: Declude.Virus@declude.com

RE: [Declude.Virus] Sudden Internet Slowdown

2005-09-09 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
. Then if someone wants something done on a particular day, and you missed it, you could just walk over to the other side of the building, finish it, and tell them it's done. Darin. - Original Message - From: Colbeck, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Declude.Virus

RE: [Declude.Virus] IP list of reported virus infections

2005-08-16 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Hmmm. I don't specifically remember that, John. But this is a handy place to check: http://www.dshield.org/warning_explanation.php DShield is fed by volunteers who run whatever firewall or IDS they like and submit the logs to DShield. It's an offshoot of the SANS Internet Storm Center. A site

RE: Re[2]: [Declude.Virus] Outlook 'CR' Vulnerability from Thunderbird ???

2005-08-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
David, with your version of Declude Virus, you'd have to turn off all 10 of the CR vulnerability checks at one go. I'm at the same or similar version, and that's what I've decided to do. This directive goes in your virus.cfg: BANCRVIRUSESOFF Andrew 8) -Original Message- From:

RE: [Declude.Virus] Expect new Bagle variants

2005-08-12 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
I hadn't until last night, Markus. But now I've got 35 copies from different sources, all flagged by F-Prot as suspicious files. F-Prot detects the executable inside a zip file as a Mitglieder variant, and submitting it to http://www.VirusTotal.com shows that all the big name vendors there are

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