Re: [Clamav-users] Email viruses almost non-existent?

2007-12-27 Thread Brian Read
John Rudd wrote: > Luis Miguel R. wrote: >> El Monday, 24 December del 2007 a las 10:55:51AM, Dennis Peterson escribió: >>> Paul Kosinski wrote: In December 2006, we were running ClamAV 0.88.7, and there were still a fair number of "real" viruses being detected in inbound email. Now

Re: [Clamav-users] Email viruses almost non-existent?

2007-12-27 Thread Brian Read
G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 Paul Kosinski wrote: > >> In December 2006, we were running ClamAV 0.88.7, and there were still >> a fair number of "real" viruses being detected in inbound email. Now >> running 0.91.2 and 0.92, there seem to be only phishing attempts, and

Re: [Clamav-users] sober.p and german adverts?

2005-05-16 Thread Brian Read
Block all mails from dynamic IP. They are 99,99% spam. No they aren't that "rule" causes quite a few of my customers a headache, as the (linux) mailserver I often install sends the email direct, irrespective of whether there Ip is "dynamic" or "static". Some ISPs charge an arm and a leg for

Re: [Clamav-users] GUI for Clamav

2004-10-07 Thread Brian Read
At 07:12 07/10/2004, you wrote: Hello; Any GUI for Clamav...I mean for Linux ??? and for SMEserver (aka e-smith) http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/index.html?frame=http%3A//sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/howtos/howto_22.htm Cheers Brian -- Brian J Read www.abandonmicrosoft.co.uk www.theonlineorganiser.com www.t

RE: [Clamav-users] Freshclam cron interval {Revisado por Antivirus}

2004-08-16 Thread Brian Read
At 18:53 16/08/2004, Mike Robinson wrote: Why not just do what I've been working on. Just set up a procmail rule that runs freshclam whenever you get a message from the clamav-virusdb list. It should work just as good as the clamav team sending you a virusdb "push" every time the database is upda

Re: [Clamav-users] SCO virus - Clam 0.65

2004-01-27 Thread Brian Read
At 14:57 27/01/2004, you wrote: Brian Read wrote: I am getting lots of these, and clamav is detecting them fine, but it clearly is trying to email back the "sender" with a notification. As the reply to is spoofed, this makes no sense at all (and i am getting lots of bounces). How

[Clamav-users] SCO virus - Clam 0.65

2004-01-27 Thread Brian Read
I am getting lots of these, and clamav is detecting them fine, but it clearly is trying to email back the "sender" with a notification. As the reply to is spoofed, this makes no sense at all (and i am getting lots of bounces). How do we stop this happening? Cheers Brian -- Brian J Read www.ab

RE: [Clamav-users] over sized zips from 0.65

2003-11-21 Thread Brian Read
atest" from the CVS? cheers Brian -Original Message----- From: Brian Read [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 November 2003 10:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] over sized zips from 0.65 At 09:37 21/11/2003, you wrote: >Brian Read wrote: > >>i am getting the

Re: [Clamav-users] over sized zips from 0.65

2003-11-21 Thread Brian Read
At 09:37 21/11/2003, you wrote: Brian Read wrote: i am getting these, since upgrading to 0.65 on RH7.3: /home/e-smith/files/ibays/software1/files/OpenOffice/OOo_1.1.0_Win32Intel_install.zip: Oversized Zip FOUND /home/e-smith/files/ibays/software1/files/OpenOffice

[Clamav-users] over sized zips from 0.65

2003-11-21 Thread Brian Read
i am getting these, since upgrading to 0.65 on RH7.3: /home/e-smith/files/ibays/software1/files/OpenOffice/OOo_1.1.0_Win32Intel_install.zip: Oversized Zip FOUND /home/e-smith/files/ibays/software1/files/OpenOffice/OOo_1.0.3.1_Win32Intel_install.zip: Oversized Zip FOUND /home/e-smith/files/ibays/

Re: [Clamav-users] Email results

2003-09-19 Thread Brian Read
At 22:09 18/09/2003, Darryl W. DeLao Jr wrote: Anyone know of a way to make clamscan email you when its done scanning with the results included?   pipe the results into "mail" viz:- (cd /;/usr/bin/clamscan --recursive --quarantine /var/clamav/quarantine --infected --stdout --log /var/clamav/log/c

RE: [clamav-users] checksum failure again?

2003-07-01 Thread Brian Read
. Just run fresclam again. Best regards, Diego d'Ambra -Original Message----- From: Brian Read [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1. juli 2003 13:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [clamav-users] checksum failure again? My daily update has just failed with this: Current working dir is /usr/share/clam

[clamav-users] checksum failure again?

2003-07-01 Thread Brian Read
My daily update has just failed with this: Current working dir is /usr/share/clamav Checking for a new database - started at Tue Jul 1 12:00:01 2003 Connected to clamav.elektrapro.com. Reading md5 sum (viruses.md5): OK Reading md5 sum (viruses2.md5): OK Downloading viruses.db ...

[clamav-users] freshclam

2003-06-23 Thread Brian Read
Got a stream of these this morning: Checking for a new database - started at Mon Jun 23 12:00:01 2003 Current working dir is /usr/share/clamav Connected to clamav.elektrapro.com. Reading md5 sum (viruses.md5): OK viruses.db is up to date. Reading md5 sum (viruses2.md5): OK Downloading viruses.db2

Re: [clamav-users] Is Fizzer covered in Clamav?

2003-05-16 Thread Brian Read
Wash Thanks for that, and a useful little trick as well!! cheers Brian At 06:41 16/05/2003, you wrote: * Brian Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030516 08:34]: wrote: > One of my customers would like to know if he is covered for the Fizzer > virus? > > Cheers > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[clamav-users] Is Fizzer covered in Clamav?

2003-05-16 Thread Brian Read
One of my customers would like to know if he is covered for the Fizzer virus? Cheers B. Brian J Read www.abandonmicrosoft.co.uk www.theonlineorganiser.com www.thepersonalknowledgebase.com Moderator for Mitel SMEserver Contributions and Howtos: www.contribs.org +44 1695 723723 -

Re: [clamav-users] Clam Antivirus Performance

2003-04-01 Thread Brian Read
At 13:10 01/04/2003, Magnus Sundberg wrote: Hi, I while ago, I read an article that stated that opensource anti-virus scanners did not catch any of the recent viruses. From scanning the archive this seems to not be true. Does anybody know of any comparisons between Clam anti virus and other comme

Re: Ang: [clamav-users] clamav site, and freshclam...

2003-03-19 Thread Brian Read
Also here, we seem to go through this every 2-3 months! Cheers Brian At 09:38 18/03/2003, Nicklas Hardman wrote: Yes I was just wondering about this. I also get errors on updating the virus database. Checking for a new database - started at Tue Mar 18 08:00:00 2003 ERROR: Can't connect to port 8

Re: [clamav-users] 0.54 Clamd not running

2002-12-29 Thread Brian Read
I will change them to 765 tomorrow and check that it still works. Thanks for the help. Brian At 18:53 29/12/2002, you wrote: >No problem, but like I said, be careful when dolling out 777 perms, a >virus may be the least of your worries then... Perms are still important.... > >Bria

Re: [clamav-users] 0.54 Clamd not running

2002-12-29 Thread Brian Read
how it goes... > >I should be back tomorrow around noon or so... > >Good Luck, >-Matt > > >Brian Read wrote: > >>Ok, set /var/run to 777, and that eliminated the error message about >>/var/run/clamd.pid >> >>but still get bind() error >> &

Re: [clamav-users] 0.54 Clamd not running

2002-12-28 Thread Brian Read
s change the UID/GID that clamd is running under I >have clamd running as it's own user with UID/GID at 102/102, my perms for >/tmp are 777 owned by root.root and perms for /var/run are 755 root.root >as well. my clamav user is also in the root group, allwing me to give it >m

Re: [clamav-users] 0.54 Clamd not running

2002-12-27 Thread Brian Read
At 20:15 27/12/2002, you wrote: >On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:38:11 -0700 >Matt Blecha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here's another question... Does the qmailq user have perms to bind to > > unix or tcp sockets, if it can't bind a unix or tcp socket, that would > > be why the crash happens... clamd do

Re: [clamav-users] 0.54 Clamd not running

2002-12-27 Thread Brian Read
At 18:05 27/12/2002, you wrote: >On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:58:13 +0000 >Brian Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I am trying to start clamd (from the command line), and it does not > give me > > any error messages, but it fails to start, that is it do

[clamav-users] 0.54 Clamd not running

2002-12-27 Thread Brian Read
I am trying to start clamd (from the command line), and it does not give me any error messages, but it fails to start, that is it does not appear in the ps -ax list. where should I look for an error messages, ort what might be the trouble? It was starting yesterday, something seems to have ch

[clamav-users] Compiling 0.54 under Linux RH7.2

2002-12-19 Thread Brian Read
I get: In file included from zziplib/zzip-dir.c:15: zziplib/zzip-file.h:20:18: zlib.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [zzip-dir.lo] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/RPMs/ClamAV/clamav-0.54/libclamav' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 I have tried (re) installing zlib, but it makes

Re: [clamav-users] ERROR: Too short pattern detected

2002-11-06 Thread Brian Read
Ok, upgraded to 0.53, and the error has gone! many thanks Brian At 09:56 06/11/2002, you wrote: > > I'm also gettig this error, on version 0.50, sonce the last db revision. > >You shouldn't use 0.50. > >Best regards, >Tomasz Kojm >-- > oo. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (\/)\.

Re: [clamav-users] ERROR: Too short pattern detected

2002-11-06 Thread Brian Read
I'm also gettig this error, on version 0.50, sonce the last db revision. Cheers Brian At 08:10 06/11/2002, you wrote: > > hi there is any one else haveing this problem wit .51 ?? > > > > the culprit is bellow from virus.db2 > > > > W98/Hybris.E (Clam)=10400081*75f16800104000c3 > > > > a

Re: [clamav-users] Getting Clamd (v0.50) to scan

2002-11-01 Thread Brian Read
clamd recognizes the following commands: >PING Check server's state. It should reply with "PONG". > >RELOAD Reload the databases. > >QUIT Perform a clean exit. > >SCAN file/directory > Scan a file or directory (recursively) with archive >

Re: [clamav-users] Getting Clamd (v0.50) to scan

2002-11-01 Thread Brian Read
Dear Wash At 12:22 01/11/2002, you wrote: >I believe the functionality you are looking for is documented within >Amavis-ng. Once clamd is up and running, all that remains is for you >to hook it up to Amavis. Yes, I am quite happy to hook it up to AMavis-ng, if I only knew how to pass the command

[clamav-users] Getting Clamd (v0.50) to scan

2002-11-01 Thread Brian Read
I am trying to use Clamd (under Linux), to see if it avoids the clagging up of my system that Clamscan creates (using aMavis-ng). However I have editted clamav.conf ,and got the demon running, but can't see how to get the scan to run, I'm sorry if this is obvious, but I can't find it documentae

Re: [clamav-users] Fewer known viruses.

2002-10-23 Thread Brian Read
>mc >What versions of clamav and amavis-ng are you using ? Please try to disable >the internal unarchiver with "--disable-archive" option. Amavis-ng is 0.1.4.1 and Clamav is 0.50. >Yesterday, I have >found a small problem with RAR, causing it to work very slowly with some >archives. amavis-ng

Re: [clamav-users] RE: [users] Report file

2002-10-17 Thread Brian Read
eers Brian At 03:00 17/10/2002, you wrote: >Ok I used the --exclude command. But it still outputs the /proc >directory . The command I ran is > ># clamscan --exclude=/proc --stdout -r -I / > >I also tried these commands ># clamscan --exclude=proc --stdout -r -I / ># cla

Re: [users] Report file

2002-10-16 Thread Brian Read
At 15:21 16/10/2002, you wrote: > >"Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> " > >That's not right. Your MTA or MUA is lying to you. The proper >Return-Path should look like: > >Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well my MTA is qmail, and my MUA is Eudora, i guess it must be Eudora getting it wrong, or my

Re: [users] Report file

2002-10-16 Thread Brian Read
At 15:00 16/10/2002, you wrote: >So my vote goes to (and I have no illusions about this being a democracy, but >if it were...) dump the subject tag and add a List-ID: header. My vote as well. As long as it is unique, my email rules will work... Cheers Brian Brian J Read www.abandonmicrosoft.co

Re: [users] Report file

2002-10-16 Thread Brian Read
At 13:30 16/10/2002, you wrote: >[Please don't top-post. If you don't know what top-posting is, check >Google.] sorry, a slip of the brain. > >Not at all, [subject tags] are ideal to use for email rules to sort > >into different folders. > >No, they suck for filtering messages into different fol

Re: [users] Report file

2002-10-16 Thread Brian Read
Not at all, they are ideal to use for email rules to sort into different folders. I get between 50-100 emails a day, and need to prioritise which i read immediatly, and which I leave until later. Cheers Brian At 12:53 16/10/2002, you wrote: >Personally, I think subject prefixes are annoying a

RE: [users] Report file

2002-10-16 Thread Brian Read
Use the --exclude parameter B. At 10:59 16/10/2002, you wrote: >is >there a way to disable testing on the /proc directory? Brian J Read www.abandonmicrosoft.co.uk www.theonlineorganiser.com www.thepersonalknowledgebase.com Mitel SMEserver Contributions and Howtos: www.abandonmicrosoft.co.uk/aba

RE: [users] Report file

2002-10-16 Thread Brian Read
as this > ># clamscan --stdout . > > >But WHERE is the stdout file? ... I did a updatedb but I could not find >that file. So where does clamscan reports the filename to? Or should I >put more options? .. If so what are the options.. > > >Thanks > >-Original

Re: [users] Report file

2002-10-16 Thread Brian Read
Yes, my email rules would work much better then. Lots of other mailing list also just use [users]. Isn't it just a parameter to the mailing list software? cheers Brian At 10:02 16/10/2002, you wrote: >It would be nice to prepend the subject of posts to this list with >[clamav-users], >no?

Re: [users] Problem with internal logger

2002-10-16 Thread Brian Read
Freshclam.log must be owned by clamav, whereas clamscan.log is root owned. Cheers Brian At 06:50 16/10/2002, you wrote: >Hi guys, I just installed the clamav as a rpm package. It seems that I >cannot run the freshclam with this options as per in the manual. > ># freshclam --quiet -l /var/log/cl

Re: [users] Report file

2002-10-16 Thread Brian Read
At 09:14 16/10/2002, you wrote: >How do I make the report file to SHOW WHICH files are being infected? >The option -i -l report.txt does not yield much info. It only shows HOW >MANY files are infected. But not WHICH files. Can someone throw me a >bone here? I think the infected file names goes ou

[users] Kak worm found

2002-10-11 Thread Brian Read
I have just moved to 0.50 from 0.24, and am now getting the following after the scan: /home/e-smith/files/users/brianr/home/bjr/backup.zip: Mid/Kakworm-Z FOUND The filename is obviously truncated (why?), but is probably one of 5 files, 3 of which are gifs, and the other two are Eudora mbx/toc f

Re: [users] Clamav 0.50

2002-10-10 Thread Brian Read
Tomasz Yup, that was it. many thanks Brian At 10:53 10/10/2002, you wrote: > > Now when I do a Freshclam - I get: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# freshclam > > Checking for a new database - started at Thu Oct 10 08:18:40 2002 > > Current working dir is /usr/share/clamav > > Connected to clama

[users] Clamav 0.50

2002-10-10 Thread Brian Read
I have just insdtalled ClamAv 0.50 on my Mirel-SMEServer (Linux Rh 7.2). Now when I do a Freshclam - I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# freshclam Checking for a new database - started at Thu Oct 10 08:18:40 2002 Current working dir is /usr/share/clamav Connected to clamav.elektrapro.com. Reading md5