Re: [clamav-users] Malware/ransomware and Yara signatures with clamav

2017-05-14 Thread Cedric Knight
On 14/05/17 17:42, G.W. Haywood wrote: >> Are clamav users protected from this ransomware? Partially. Everyone agrees: * Check MS17-010 is applied on every Windows device you can - before tomorrow! I don't have access to samples, but ClamAV seems to be picking up some of Wcry/WanaCrypt0r/WannaC

[clamav-users] Any advance on 21467 ?

2016-03-22 Thread Cedric Knight
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any timescale for daily.cvd to be updated? On 21/03/16 21:59, Paul Kosinski wrote: > Ours is looking for updates every 1.5 hours, just as the cron job > says. (Just curious: do you have two crontab lines, or start freshclam daemon with "-c 16" ? ) C

Re: [clamav-users] [Fwd: securiteinfo problems]

2015-04-24 Thread Cedric Knight
clam willing to report on it? Thanks. -- All best wishes, Cedric Knight GreenNet > > Original Message > Subject: securiteinfo problems > From:"Steve Basford" > Date:Thu, April 23, 2015 8:24 am > To:

Re: [clamav-users] Archive & signature precedence

2014-11-07 Thread Cedric Knight
rather than using ClamAV at all, but I would imagine the feature of testing files from most specific to most generic would be a useful enhancement for many users. > - Feel free to submit feature requests to bugzilla.clamav.net I think this is an RFE, so will do so. Thanks. CK > > S

[clamav-users] Archive & signature precedence

2014-11-06 Thread Cedric Knight
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Like a lot of users I suspect, I use ClamAV to search within archives for generic filename patterns (or other characteristics) specified in a .zmd file. Like some, I use clamdscan through amavis and rescore some types of hits that conceivably migh

[clamav-users] freshclam can't download daily.cvd

2013-05-17 Thread Cedric Knight
Hello Running clamav 0.97.6 and then 0.97.8 on a Debian squeeze server, since 14 Feb this year freshclam has been consistently failing with ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-16682.cdiff from database.clamav.net WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd ... Ignori

Re: [clamav-users] Spamtrap suggestion

2012-06-01 Thread Cedric Knight
Hi Please excuse the long composite response: On 30/05/12 12:17, G.W. Haywood wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2012, Cedric Knight wrote: > >> What I'm looking for is a way to avoid having to report new malware >> variants so frequently. > > You need iptables, a long G

Re: [clamav-users] Spamtrap suggestion

2012-05-29 Thread Cedric Knight
On 29/05/12 15:04, Henrik K wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:33:30PM +0100, Cedric Knight wrote: >> It seems there's at least new variant every day of Kryptik/Kazy/Zbot >> worms or Trojan droppers sent zipped through email. These are attached >> to a type of spam u

[clamav-users] Spamtrap suggestion

2012-05-29 Thread Cedric Knight
companies like Sophos has a fair degree of automation anyway, so you would think they would also scour the network for suspicious files using simple patterns. Or maybe the malware is just good at avoiding everyone else's spamtraps? Or would it escalate the malware arms race? Just curious.

Re: [clamav-users] Major new false positive? BC.Exploit.CVE_2012_0184

2012-05-11 Thread Cedric Knight
On 11/05/12 17:14, Cedric Knight wrote: > Hi > > I'm seeing BC.Exploit.CVE_2012_0184 hit a wide variety of attachments as > of 14:40 UTC this afternoon. Will submit a sample the usual way, but > wanted to warn that it just seems to be quite extensive. (also > possibly B

[clamav-users] Major new false positive? BC.Exploit.CVE_2012_0184

2012-05-11 Thread Cedric Knight
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[clamav-users] Sig delay on Win32.Oficla-BJ / Krap / Zbot?

2010-12-13 Thread Cedric Knight
A user reported Avast had detected a zipped .exe malware dropper as "Win32.Oficla-BJ [Drp]". I submitted a sample via the ClamAV site on 3 December, but it seems the signature still hasn't been published and the file is still not detected. I believe it has been in the SaneSecurity/OITC winnow lis