Looks like all Phish.Phishing.REPHISH_ID_... signatures were dropped by 
daily-25423 today.

-Al-

> On Apr 17, 2019, at 04:02, Al Varnell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There are still 2515 "Phish.Phishing.REPHISH_ID_...." signatures in daily.ldb
> 
> -Al-
> 
>> On Apr 17, 2019, at 03:36, Maarten Broekman <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Are the "Phish" REPHISH signatures still in the daily or were they removed 
>> as well? Those were causing part of the issue.
>> 
>> 
>> --Maarten
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 5:24 AM Al Varnell via clamav-users 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> An additional 3968 Phishtank.Phishing.PHISH_ID_??????? signatures were 
>> dropped by daily-25417 on 12 April, and I can't seem to locate any more.
>> 
>> -Al-
>> 
>>> On Apr 17, 2019, at 02:01, Mark Allan via clamav-users 
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Micah,
>>> 
>>> Sorry to pester you, but have you any update on when the remaining 
>>> Phishtank signatures will be getting removed? It would be really great to 
>>> get scan times properly back to normal.
>>> 
>>> Best regards
>>> Mark
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 16:32, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> Mark,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes, the plan is still to remove the rest of the Phishtank signatures.  We 
>>> wanted to get things back to relative normal and resolve the immediate 
>>> crisis.  We’ll remove the rest of them soon.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Micah  
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> From: Mark Allan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 6:26 AM
>>> To: "Micah Snyder (micasnyd)" <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Cc: ClamAV users ML <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Subject: Re: [External] Re: [clamav-users] Scan very slow
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> The scan times are definitely better than they were - in fact, they're back 
>>> to how they were before last week's inclusion of the Phishtank signatures. 
>>> They're still almost double what they used to be though, and as far as I 
>>> can see, there are still almost 4000 Phishtank signatures in the DB: 
>>> 
>>> $ sigtool --find Phishtank | wc -l
>>> 
>>>     3968
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Can I request that those ones also be removed please?
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Best regards
>>> 
>>> Mark 
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 at 14:43, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Tim,
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> There are a couple of ways for users to drop specific categories of 
>>> signatures at this time.  Sadly, they wouldn’t have helped this last week.  
>>> These include bytecode signatures, PUA (potentially unwanted applications) 
>>> signatures, Email.Phishing and HTML.Phishing signatures, and the 
>>> Safebrowsing database. 
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> If we had named the Phishtank.Phishing sigs to HTML.Phishing.Phishtank or 
>>> Email.Phishing.Phishtank then they could have been disabled with the 
>>> clamscan option `--phishing-sigs=no` (clamd.conf: `PhishingSignatures no`).
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Maybe a better option would be for us to create a new optional database for 
>>> phishing signatures. However, the names for the databases are hardcoded 
>>> into freshclam, so it is non-trivial to add a new database and would 
>>> require a few changes to ClamAV’s code. We have talked about making the 
>>> databases easier to add/remove in the future so users can have more 
>>> categories to enable/disable. In this light, it ties in well with existing 
>>> plans.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Of note the Phishtank sigs from Friday’s daily were removed yesterday and 
>>> scan times should be back to normal.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Micah
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> From: Tim Hawkins <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Date: Friday, April 5, 2019 at 6:06 PM
>>> To: ClamAV users ML <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>, Mark Allan <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Cc: "Micah Snyder (micasnyd)" <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Subject: Re: [External] Re: [clamav-users] Scan very slow
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Hi Micah
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Does clamav partition the database so that signatures that are mainly 
>>> associated with email scanning can be dropped out for folks only needing 
>>> filesystems scans,  none of our systems use email, and we dont make use of 
>>> the mailer extension. 
>>> 
>>> Having to load all the email focused signatures could as you have observed 
>>> impact performance.
>>> 
>>> Sent from Nine <http://www.9folders.com/>
>>> From: "Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users" 
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Sent: Saturday, April 6, 2019 03:18
>>> To: ClamAV users ML; Mark Allan
>>> Cc: Micah Snyder (micasnyd)
>>> Subject: [External] Re: [clamav-users] Scan very slow
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Regarding slow scan times today (and slow scan times in general), it 
>>> appears that the signatures we generate based on PhishTank’s feed for 
>>> phishing URLs are resulting in very slow load and scan times.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Today’s daily update saw 7448 new Phishtank signatures (much higher than 
>>> usual) coinciding with the immediate performance drop for load time and 
>>> scan time.  One user reported that the load time today on some of his 
>>> slower machines was slow enough to exceed the timeout for service startup 
>>> (https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12317 
>>> <https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12317>).
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> In limited testing on my own machine I saw the following change after 
>>> dropping the Phishtank.Phishing signatures from daily.cvd’s daily.ldb file:
>>> 
>>> Database load time on my laptop went from 75.43203997612 seconds down to 
>>> 14.859203100204468 seconds
>>> Scan time (for an arbitrary pdf) went from 1.798 sec to 0.644 sec.
>>>  
>>> 
>>> After some discussion between the teams that work on ClamAV and ClamAV 
>>> signature content and deployment, we’ve agreed to drop PhishTank signatures 
>>> from the database until we can determine a way to craft Phishtank 
>>> signatures without incurring such a significant performance hit.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> The daily update tomorrow will have the change.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> -Micah
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Micah Snyder
>>> ClamAV Development
>>> Talos
>>> Cisco Systems, Inc.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> From: clamav-users <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of "Micah Snyder 
>>> (micasnyd) via clamav-users" <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Reply-To: ClamAV users ML <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Date: Friday, April 5, 2019 at 1:08 PM
>>> To: Mark Allan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>, ClamAV 
>>> users ML <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Cc: "Micah Snyder (micasnyd)" <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Scan very slow
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Hi Mark,
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Sorry about the delay in responding.  I hadn’t looked at my clamav-users 
>>> filter this morning.  Just investigating now.  Will respond when I know 
>>> more.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> -Micah
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> From: Mark Allan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Date: Friday, April 5, 2019 at 9:12 AM
>>> To: ClamAV users ML <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>, "Micah Snyder (micasnyd)" 
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Scan very slow
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Also CC'ing Micah directly as the mailing list would appear to be offline 
>>> (at least lists.clamav.net <http://lists.clamav.net/> isn't responding to 
>>> http requests anyway)
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> It looks like scan times have gone through the roof. As Oya said, they're 
>>> still considerably higher than they were a couple of months ago, but 
>>> today's scan time is insane.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Yesterday's scan using
>>> 
>>> 0.101.2:58:25409:1554370140:1:63:48554:328
>>> 
>>> took 7m 3s
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> On the same hardware, scanning the same read-only disk image, with today's 
>>> scan using
>>> 
>>> 0.101.2:58:25410:1554452941:1:63:48557:328
>>> 
>>> the scan time has jumped to 26m 15s
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> This is the longest it has ever taken to scan this volume (cf my previous 
>>> email of 25th March)
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Is there anything that can be excluded?
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Best regards
>>> 
>>> Mark
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 17:11, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users 
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thanks Oya for the update.  We will continue to investigate the signature 
>>> performance issue. 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Micah
>>> 
>>> On 3/28/19, 9:50 AM, "clamav-users on behalf of Tsutomu Oyamada" 
>>> <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]> on behalf of 
>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>     Hi Micah
>>> 
>>>     It seems that the  scanning slow down issue of this time has been solved
>>>     at some level with CVD Update of the other day.
>>>     However, there is still big discrepancy in between the current 
>>> condition and
>>>     the last condition in one month ago.
>>> 
>>>     Date                Files               Scan time
>>>     2019/02/15  2550338         08:53:57
>>>     2019/03/15  2612792         19:22:54
>>>     2019/03/26  2634489         18:13:56
>>>     2019/03/27  2637201         18:10:05
>>> 
>>>     We know the improvement of this time is due to the details of CVD, 
>>> because
>>>     we did not make any change on the user's system.
>>>     We are going to try some tuning for scanning.
>>> 
>>>     We like to know if you still have some room to make further improvement
>>>     for this slow down issue.
>>>     Thank you for your help, in advance.
>>> 
>>>     Best regards,
>>>     Oya
>>> 
>>>     On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:45:02 +0000
>>>     "Micah Snyder \(micasnyd\) via clamav-users" 
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>     > Hi Mark, all:
>>>     > 
>>>     > I’m disappointed to hear that it is still slow for you.
>>>     > 
>>>     > We found that the target-type of signatures used for 
>>> PhishTank.Phishing signatures were causing a significant slowdown.   We 
>>> have dropped them as of this past Saturday 
>>> (https://lists.gt.net/clamav/virusdb/75279 
>>> <https://lists.gt.net/clamav/virusdb/75279> ) and in the last two updates 
>>> have been re-adding them with more specific scan target types.  We’re now 
>>> investigating some other optimizations we can make for the next major 
>>> ClamAV release to improve scan times but at present we don’t have any other 
>>> leads for signatures that may be slowing down scans.
>>>     > 
>>>     > Regards,
>>>     > Micah
>>>     > 
>>>     > 
>>>     > From: clamav-users <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Mark Allan via 
>>> clamav-users <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>>     > Reply-To: ClamAV users ML <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>>     > Date: Monday, March 25, 2019 at 9:37 AM
>>>     > To: ClamAV users ML <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>>     > Cc: Mark Allan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>>     > Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Scan very slow
>>>     > 
>>>     > Cheers Steve,
>>>     > 
>>>     > In the interest of completeness, here's the scan from today (TXT from 
>>> DNS: 0.101.1:58:25399:1553509741:1:63:48528:328) showing a marked 
>>> improvement in scan time, although at 6m 7s it's still almost twice what it 
>>> used to be.
>>>     > 
>>>     > Mark
>>>     > 
>>>     > On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 12:56, Steve Basford 
>>> <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]
>>>  <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>>     > On 2019-03-25 10:52, Mark Allan via clamav-users wrote:
>>>     > > Hi all,
>>>     > >
>>>     > te.
>>>     > >
>>>     > > Hopefully this helps someone to narrow things down a bit.
>>>     > >
>>>     > > Mark
>>>     > >
>>>     > 
>>>     > 18/3/19         10m 49s         TXT from DNS:
>>>     > 0.101.1:58:25392:1552904941:1:63:48507:328      ***
>>>     > 
>>>     > Here's the changes for the above update:
>>>     > 
>>>     > https://lists.gt.net/clamav/virusdb/75154 
>>> <https://lists.gt.net/clamav/virusdb/75154>
>>>     > 
>>>     > You can also check sigs quickly per update:
>>>     > 
>>>     > https://lists.gt.net/clamav/virusdb/ 
>>> <https://lists.gt.net/clamav/virusdb/>
>>>     > 
>>>     > 
>>>     > 
>>>     > --
>>>     > Cheers,
>>>     > 
>>>     > Steve
>>>     > Twitter: @sanesecurity
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