[Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses

2004-05-31 Thread Albert Whale
I've noticed the several Viruses are getting through my mimedefang Filter. One sample is a copy of Bounce message including the Headers, and Multi part MIME Attachments Containing the . The Virus is detectable with Clamscan, but not with antivir. I am not certain if this is an issue with

Re: [Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses

2004-05-31 Thread David F. Skoll
On Sun, 30 May 2004, Albert Whale wrote: I've noticed the several Viruses are getting through my mimedefang Filter. [...] This message has been rejected because it has a potentially executable attachment message.scr This form of attachment has been used by recent viruses

Re: [Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses

2004-05-31 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Albert Whale wrote: I can manually run the scanner on the mbox file and detect the virus. I just cannot see what the difference is between a Manual Scan and an MD Scan, given the same tools. Enable ScanMail in your clamav.conf -- David.

Re: [Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses

2004-05-31 Thread Albert Whale
Thanks for the reply. David F. Skoll wrote: -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- The bounce message doesn't encapsulate the virus in a MIME message, but just sticks the whole original message in a text/plain part. So MIMEDefang never sees the virus, and any

Re: [Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses

2004-05-31 Thread Albert Whale
David F. Skoll wrote: Enable ScanMail in your clamav.conf It is. -- Albert E. Whale, CISSP - Sr. Security, Network, and Systems Consultant http://www.abs-comptech.com http://www.No-JunkMail.com ABS Computer

Re: [Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses

2004-05-31 Thread Albert Whale
Albert Whale wrote: David F. Skoll wrote: Enable ScanMail in your clamav.conf It is. My Config info: grep -v ^# /usr/etc/clamav.conf | sort | uniq AllowSupplementaryGroups ArchiveBlockEncrypted ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio 200 ArchiveMaxFiles 1000 ArchiveMaxFileSize 10M ArchiveMaxRecursion 5

Re: [Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses

2004-05-31 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Albert Whale wrote: ScanMail Well, that's odd. Does clamdscan (not clamscan) catch it? Regards, David. ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses

2004-05-31 Thread Albert Whale
David F. Skoll wrote: Well, that's odd. Does clamdscan (not clamscan) catch it? Yes, I thought that it was odd as well. That's why I'm reporting it. My original testing included both clamd and clamscan configurations in MD. My most recent testing was with clamd disabled (so that I could

Re: [Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses

2004-05-31 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Albert Whale wrote: Well, that's odd. Does clamdscan (not clamscan) catch it? Yes, I thought that it was odd as well. That's why I'm reporting it. My original testing included both clamd and clamscan configurations in MD. Did you run Clam on the actual MIMEDefang spool

RE: [Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses

2004-05-31 Thread Rob
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Yes, I thought that it was odd as well. That's why I'm reporting it. My original testing included both clamd and clamscan configurations in MD. My most recent testing was with clamd disabled (so that I

Re: [Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses

2004-05-31 Thread Albert Whale
David F. Skoll wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2004, Albert Whale wrote: My original testing included both clamd and clamscan configurations in MD. Did you run Clam on the actual MIMEDefang spool directory, or on a copy of the message in the quarantine? Ok, well I don't have the original

Re: [Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses

2004-05-31 Thread Chris Myers
- Original Message - From: Albert Whale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 10:44 PM Subject: [Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses I've noticed the several Viruses are getting through my mimedefang Filter. [...] Has anyone else received a virus

Re: [Mimedefang] MD 2.43 - Missing Viruses

2004-05-31 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Chris Myers wrote: 1) The default umask for my system is 077, which means that many of the files created by MIMEDefang are not readable by the virus scanner unless it's running as root (on my system, I have clamav running as a member of the defang group). MIMEDefang