Re: Clamav broke

2018-06-12 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I downgraded to clamd 0.99.4-3 and it works. so something broke in 0.100.0-2 Suggestions on how to track down the failure cause to see if it is a configuration error on my part or a broken package/dependency? Jeff On 2018-06-12 13:46, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > this morning I did a dnf upgrade

Re: Clamav tell's me rkhunter is a worm!

2014-04-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: /usr/bin/rkhunter: Osx.Worm.Inqtana-3 FOUND /usr/bin/rkhunter: moved to '/var/cache/clam/rkhunter.001' rkhunter-1.4.2-2.fc20.noarch Rkhunter was updated to this during the week,http://ask.fedoraproject.org rkhunter is likely getting

Re: Clamav tell's me rkhunter is a worm!

2014-04-10 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 09:53 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: /usr/bin/rkhunter: Osx.Worm.Inqtana-3 FOUND /usr/bin/rkhunter: moved to '/var/cache/clam/rkhunter.001' The ClamAV Inqtana-3 check looks for a couple of phrases (actually parts of filenames) which also occur in rkhunter as part of its

Re: Clamav tell's me rkhunter is a worm!

2014-04-10 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:46:56 +0100 John Horne john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 09:53 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: /usr/bin/rkhunter: Osx.Worm.Inqtana-3 FOUND /usr/bin/rkhunter: moved to '/var/cache/clam/rkhunter.001' The ClamAV Inqtana-3 check looks for a couple of

Re: Clamav

2010-04-21 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: Bugfix (by a non-Albanian): FIRST send this mail to everyone you know, and AFTER THAT delete all the files on the disk. See. Open source works! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Clamav

2010-04-20 Thread Tim
Tim: If you read the reviews of anti-virus software, from time to time, you will see that none of them are 100% effective. The last review I read came to the conclusion that the most effective checkers only managed to find about 60% of the viruses, and not all the same viruses. That is a

Re: Clamav

2010-04-20 Thread jdow
From: Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au Sent: Tuesday, 2010/April/20 06:00 Tim: If you read the reviews of anti-virus software, from time to time, you will see that none of them are 100% effective. The last review I read came to the conclusion that the most effective checkers only managed to

Re: Clamav

2010-04-20 Thread kalinix
DEAR RECEIVER, You have just received an Albanian virus. Since we are not so technologically advanced in Albania, this is a MANUAL virus. Please delete all the files on your hard disk yourself and send this mail to everyone you know. Thank you very much for collaboration. Dr. Alban, the

Re: Clamav

2010-04-20 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 00:07:57 kalinix wrote: DEAR RECEIVER, You have just received an Albanian virus. Since we are not so technologically advanced in Albania, this is a MANUAL virus. Please delete all the files on your hard disk yourself and send this mail to everyone you know.

Re: Clamav

2010-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:46:56 -0400 Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: I have this feeling that most people are missing the point of why CLAMAV is a useful tool. If you do it to protect yourself against a virus then that's the wrong reason. We can debate this till we're blue in the face,

Re: Clamav

2010-04-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:16:02 +0100, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: The number of Linux people who don't realise that this is just as true viewing a PDF or PS file in the wrong way is astounding. PDF and PS have a safe mode but an alarming number of people set their helper apps

Re: Clamav

2010-04-19 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 11:20 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Anti virus is still the wrong way to go for this stuff. It doesn't scale well. It sucks a lot of resources. It doesn't match all bad stuff. Yes, it's always been a bit of a fail... It lags behind in detecting new things, they only

Re: Clamav

2010-04-19 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:28 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: If the virus definitions from Clamav is written for linux based viruses and not windows based then what real good is it. All virus definitions should be included with the scan Especially if Wine and virtualbox are running on a linux

Re: Clamav

2010-04-19 Thread jdow
From: Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au Sent: Monday, 2010/April/19 10:29 On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:28 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: If the virus definitions from Clamav is written for linux based viruses and not windows based then what real good is it. All virus definitions should be included

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 19:54:10 -0700, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: When giving advice it's best to presume the user is going to do something unusual, such as run Wine, and receive an infection. A Wine install needs ClamAV. Without Wine I'd suggest chkrootkit and rkhunter, at the least.

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/17/2010 07:54 PM, jdow wrote: From: Sam Sharpelists.red...@samsharpe.net Sent: Saturday, 2010/April/17 13:20 On 17 April 2010 21:05, jdowj...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Sam Sharpelists.red...@samsharpe.net Sent: Saturday, 2010/April/17 02:25 On 17 April 2010

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 10:13 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: [...] I think that it is a must to have protection on your machines considering I am looking at a machine that was supposed to be bullet proof, and proved to be infectable with windows crap through wine. If you are running wine

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/18/2010 10:22 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 10:13 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: [...] I think that it is a must to have protection on your machines considering I am looking at a machine that was supposed to be bullet proof, and proved to be

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Antonio Olivares
So the myth is just that, a myth IOW, when you run Windows apps, you get infected. Where's the myth? Did your Linux system crash? Were any of your system files corrupted? Was any of your non-Wine data leaked? Was your root password compromised? Did anything happen that would

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 10:39 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/18/2010 10:22 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 10:13 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: [...] I think that it is a must to have protection on your machines considering I am looking at a

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/18/2010 10:54 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: So the myth is just that, a myth IOW, when you run Windows apps, you get infected. Where's the myth? Did your Linux system crash? Were any of your system files corrupted? Was any of your non-Wine data

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 04/15/2010 12:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: I have removed all and I will wait for proper instruction as I really do not know enough about this OS Given that you say so yourself, the logical question is why do you need

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Sun, 4/18/10, Daniel B. Thurman d...@cdkkt.com wrote: From: Daniel B. Thurman d...@cdkkt.com Subject: Re: Clamav To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 11:37 AM On 04/15/2010 12:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 April 2010, Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Sun, 4/18/10, Daniel B. Thurman d...@cdkkt.com wrote: From: Daniel B. Thurman d...@cdkkt.com Subject: Re: Clamav To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 11:37 AM On 04/15/2010 12

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/18/2010 11:48 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Sun, 4/18/10, Daniel B. Thurmand...@cdkkt.com wrote: From: Daniel B. Thurmand...@cdkkt.com Subject: Re: Clamav To: Community support for Fedora usersusers@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 11:37 AM On 04/15

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/18/2010 12:00 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 April 2010, Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Sun, 4/18/10, Daniel B. Thurmand...@cdkkt.com wrote: From: Daniel B. Thurmand...@cdkkt.com Subject: Re: Clamav To: Community support for Fedora usersusers@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:37 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: One other weird thing i forgot to mention. I install xp via wine 2 months ago. Have not touched it since. Started scanning just to see a week ago. The files that were renamed by the virus were done two days ago, according to time

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/18/2010 12:53 PM, Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:37 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: One other weird thing i forgot to mention. I install xp via wine 2 months ago. Have not touched it since. Started scanning just to see a week ago. The files that were renamed by the

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/18/2010 12:00 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 April 2010, Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Sun, 4/18/10, Daniel B. Thurmand...@cdkkt.com wrote: From: Daniel B. Thurmand...@cdkkt.com Subject: Re: Clamav To: Community support for Fedora

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 April 2010, Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:37 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: One other weird thing i forgot to mention. I install xp via wine 2 months ago. Have not touched it since. Started scanning just to see a week ago. The files that were renamed by the virus

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread jdow
From: Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, 2010/April/18 10:13 On 04/17/2010 07:54 PM, jdow wrote: From: Sam Sharpelists.red...@samsharpe.net Sent: Saturday, 2010/April/17 13:20 On 17 April 2010 21:05, jdowj...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Sam Sharpelists.red...@samsharpe.net

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread jdow
From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net Sent: Sunday, 2010/April/18 12:00 On Sunday 18 April 2010, Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Sun, 4/18/10, Daniel B. Thurman d...@cdkkt.com wrote: From: Daniel B. Thurman d...@cdkkt.com Subject: Re: Clamav To: Community support for Fedora users users

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread jdow
From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net Sent: Sunday, 2010/April/18 13:39 On Sunday 18 April 2010, Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:37 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: One other weird thing i forgot to mention. I install xp via wine 2 months ago. Have not touched it since.

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 10:39 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: My point is if wine is part of a Fedora install because it installs with Fedora automatically it is part of the system in general. Wine is not installed automatically. In no sense is it part of the system. Anyone who installs Wine should

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 11:37 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Given that you say so yourself, the logical question is why do you need Clamav? Clamav is usually installed by people running mail servers for users who access them from Windows. Where is the proof that an AV is not needed for

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:28 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: If the virus definitions from Clamav is written for linux based viruses and not windows based then what real good is it. You seem to be rather confused about ClamAV. AFAIK it's designed to trap Windows viruses in email, since these are the

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 13:58 -0700, jdow wrote: I think that it is a must to have protection on your machines considering I am looking at a machine that was supposed to be bullet proof, and proved to be infectable with windows crap through wine. If you are running wine without protection

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 16:57 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:28 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: If the virus definitions from Clamav is written for linux based viruses and not windows based then what real good is it. You seem to be rather confused about ClamAV. AFAIK

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/18/2010 02:28 PM, Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 13:58 -0700, jdow wrote: I think that it is a must to have protection on your machines considering I am looking at a machine that was supposed to be bullet proof, and proved to be infectable with windows crap through wine.

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Steven W. Orr
I have this feeling that most people are missing the point of why CLAMAV is a useful tool. If you do it to protect yourself against a virus then that's the wrong reason. We can debate this till we're blue in the face, but AFAICT there is no threat of a virus against anything other than Windows. I

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread kalinix
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 14:12 -0700, jdow wrote: the question becomes, how did they get there? Michael says he hardly used it. It also is an infection that has appeared on a Linux system. GNU/Linux is not bulletproof. {^_^} 99% of the cases the interference between the chair and the

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread jdow
From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, 2010/April/18 14:27 On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:28 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: If the virus definitions from Clamav is written for linux based viruses and not windows based then what real good is it. You seem to be rather confused

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread jdow
From: Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, 2010/April/18 14:39 ... Has been nuked Got rid of wine all together Virtualbox as well. If I am going to run windows products I will do it in it's own PC and that's that. Too bad I really liked virtualbox Re ran scans with Avira

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread jdow
From: Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net Sent: Sunday, 2010/April/18 14:46 ... Another thing ClamAV does on an email scan is pick off a goodly number of phishes, some of which are really well done. It helps mitigate a wetware failure mechanism. {o.o} -- users mailing list

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 15:32 -0700, jdow wrote: Needed or not, I personally believe it is wise to use them. And if you feel ClamAV is inappropriate do mention tools that are appropriate such as chkrootkit and rkhunter. This is the last time I'm going to say it: I wasn't then and am not now

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 14:39 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: Virtualbox as well. If I am going to run windows products I will do it in it's own PC and that's that. Too bad I really liked virtualbox VB (and VMware, and KVM) are entirely different from Wine. Perhaps you need to understand the

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/18/2010 03:36 PM, jdow wrote: From: Michael Milesmmami...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, 2010/April/18 14:39 ... Has been nuked Got rid of wine all together Virtualbox as well. If I am going to run windows products I will do it in it's own PC and that's that. Too bad I really

Re: Clamav

2010-04-18 Thread jdow
From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, 2010/April/18 16:18 On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 15:32 -0700, jdow wrote: Needed or not, I personally believe it is wise to use them. And if you feel ClamAV is inappropriate do mention tools that are appropriate such as chkrootkit and

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread jdow
From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 22:49 On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 19:43 -0700, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 16:51 On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 13:47 -0700, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 17 April 2010 08:41, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 22:49 Which of the vulnerabilities discussed on the kernel list is communicable via an email message in such a way as to compromise the security of the target

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread jdow
From: Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net Sent: Saturday, 2010/April/17 02:09 On 17 April 2010 08:41, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 22:49 Which of the vulnerabilities discussed on the kernel list is communicable

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 17 April 2010 10:17, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: jdow How many people get frustrated with SELinux and simply disable it? I don't know, but stupidity appears to be an infinite resource. I tend to believe that if you disable SELinux and you get exploited by something that SELinux would

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 20:29:25 -0700, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: Clearly no OS is safe from exploit. The most effective security method employed on Linux is simply not to run as superuser where most Windows and Macintosh users are running as superuser and the software

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 00:41 -0700, jdow wrote: Which of the vulnerabilities discussed on the kernel list is communicable via an email message in such a way as to compromise the security of the target system without manual intervention on the part of its user? Please be specific. Here

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 17 April 2010, jdow wrote: From: Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net Sent: Saturday, 2010/April/17 02:09 On 17 April 2010 08:41, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 22:49 Which of the vulnerabilities

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread Mikkel
On 04/17/2010 04:17 AM, jdow wrote: jdow How many people get frustrated with SELinux and simply disable it? {o.o} It is hard to say. How many people get frustrated with iptables and simply disable the firewall? It is the same type of fix. I have seen some people on this list recommend

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/17/2010 12:41 AM, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghanpocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 22:49 On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 19:43 -0700, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghanpocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 16:51 On Fri, 2010-04-16 at

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread jdow
From: Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net Sent: Saturday, 2010/April/17 02:25 On 17 April 2010 10:17, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: jdow How many people get frustrated with SELinux and simply disable it? I don't know, but stupidity appears to be an infinite resource. I tend to believe

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread jdow
From: Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, 2010/April/17 09:02 On 04/17/2010 12:41 AM, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghanpocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 22:49 On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 19:43 -0700, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghanpocallag...@gmail.com

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 17 April 2010 21:05, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net Sent: Saturday, 2010/April/17 02:25 On 17 April 2010 10:17, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: jdow How many people get frustrated with SELinux and simply disable it? I don't know, but stupidity

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread jdow
From: Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net Sent: Saturday, 2010/April/17 13:20 On 17 April 2010 21:05, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net Sent: Saturday, 2010/April/17 02:25 On 17 April 2010 10:17, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: jdow How many

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/2010 05:32 PM, Michael Miles wrote: On 04/15/2010 01:09 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 04/15/2010 03:22 PM, Michael Miles wrote: How on earth do I set this up to get virus definitions that selinux won't jump all over I just want

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread jdow
From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 12:50 On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: I have removed all and I will wait for proper instruction as I really do not know enough about this OS Given that you say so yourself, the logical

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread jdow
From: Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 13:02 On 04/15/2010 12:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: I have removed all and I will wait for proper instruction as I really do not know enough about this OS

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread jdow
From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 13:31 On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:02 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: Is Fedora really that secure? Even if we limit the discussion to email viruses, that's a very complex and difficult question (to which the answer is

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 13:39:42 -0700, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 12:50 4) I will agree with you as far as to say Linux is not as vulnerable as Windows. That is mostly because it is still perceived as being

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/16/2010 01:39 PM, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghanpocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 12:50 On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: I have removed all and I will wait for proper instruction as I really do not know enough about this OS

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread Seann Clark
Michael Miles wrote: On 04/16/2010 01:39 PM, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghanpocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 12:50 On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: I have removed all and I will wait for proper instruction as I really

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/16/2010 03:00 PM, Seann Clark wrote: Michael Miles wrote: On 04/16/2010 01:39 PM, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghanpocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 12:50 On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: I have removed all and I will wait for proper

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread jdow
From: Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 14:55 On 04/16/2010 01:39 PM, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghanpocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 12:50 On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: I have removed all and I will wait for

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 13:47 -0700, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 13:31 On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:02 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: Is Fedora really that secure? Even if we limit the discussion to email viruses, that's a very

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread jdow
From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 16:50 On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 13:39 -0700, jdow wrote: 1) I have seen at least one active exploit, I fortunately recognized myself, for Linux in my mumble years with computers. (longer than yours, sonny, although I

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread jdow
From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 16:51 On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 13:47 -0700, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 13:31 On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:02 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: Is Fedora really

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 19:37 -0700, jdow wrote: You also said Linux machines were perfectly safe. And I reacted by saying I don't believe that. Active exploits exist for Linux. Some are transmitted by email and activated in one of the more or less standard ways. People said MacOS was

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/16/2010 04:26 PM, jdow wrote: From: Seann Clarknombran...@tsukinokage.net Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 15:00 As a note, Virus Total is a good proving ground on how most AV programs just plain suck half the time especially with bleeding edge bugs. (Search Sans ISC for articles on that

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 19:37 -0700, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 16:50 On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 13:39 -0700, jdow wrote: 1) I have seen at least one active exploit, I fortunately recognized myself, for Linux in my mumble years with

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 19:43 -0700, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 16:51 On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 13:47 -0700, jdow wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 13:31 On Thu, 2010-04-15

Re: Clamav

2010-04-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: I have removed all and I will wait for proper instruction as I really do not know enough about this OS Given that you say so yourself, the logical question is why do you need Clamav? Clamav is usually installed by people running mail

Re: Clamav

2010-04-15 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/15/2010 12:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: I have removed all and I will wait for proper instruction as I really do not know enough about this OS Given that you say so yourself, the logical question is why do you need

Re: Clamav

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/2010 03:22 PM, Michael Miles wrote: How on earth do I set this up to get virus definitions that selinux won't jump all over I just want email scanned out and in I tried the latest 96 could only find i686 rpm for clamav, clamd,

Re: Clamav

2010-04-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:02 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: Is Fedora really that secure? Even if we limit the discussion to email viruses, that's a very complex and difficult question (to which the answer is yes :-). It's not an attribute exclusive to Fedora as such, but to all Unix-based systems,