Re: [Clamav-users] 64bit RH ES5 Compile Error for Clamav 0.95.3

2009-10-30 Thread Kelson
eparately instead of using the package that comes with Red Hat. Is that correct? RHEL's package installs in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64, not in /usr/local/lib. It's also simpler to install. Just run "yum install zlib zlib-devel" and it'll download and install automatically, i

Re: [Clamav-users] Twitter

2008-12-04 Thread Kelson
developing and stuff, instead > of these "hip" services? So blogs are okay now? I thought most techies still considered them to be a newfangled self-important fad not worth the neologism. :-P Besides, running a blog with, as you say, "actual content

Re: [Clamav-users] False positive? PUA.Script.Packed-1

2008-10-16 Thread Kelson
code or tools that have legitimate uses, but might also be used to sneak something unwanted onto a system. There was a thread a few weeks ago where someone had a whole list of things like VNC clients, port scanners, etc. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications

Re: [Clamav-users] PUAs

2008-09-11 Thread Kelson
1990s), the campus network was relatively patchwork and tended to be low on network tools. Though I think even Windows 98 had at least a command-line FTP client, so I'd think anything with working email should at least be able to retrieve a file from an FTP server. -- Kelson Vibber

Re: [Clamav-users] false alarm with uploading js from wordpress

2008-04-07 Thread Kelson
available in a clean form as well: http://jquery.com/ The obfuscation, in this case, is a really annoying form of compression. (95 KB for the source code vs. 29 KB for the packed script.) -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ Help us build a

Re: [Clamav-users] What's this? I can't believe it!

2008-01-22 Thread Kelson
s > called for. I've missed the earlier posts in this thread, but this makes it sound a lot like the problem encountered in this series of posts: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3817 -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ Help

Re: [Clamav-users] live CD

2008-01-22 Thread Kelson
DHowTo You can probably bundle in NTFS drivers from http://rpm.livna.org -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Clam bugs/vulns

2008-01-03 Thread Kelson
tently overwrite the target file. 4. Attacker can either enjoy the chaos, or attempt to manipulate just what the privileged app will write. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing feature defaults, naming, and 0.92

2007-11-15 Thread Kelson
e configuration can change even though the config *file* stays the same. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] PhishingScanURLs is dreadfully slow/CPU-intensive

2007-11-12 Thread Kelson
uments*? It doesn't need root access to modify the user's own files. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] signature names

2007-09-12 Thread Kelson
categories; will eventually need to add categories. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] XF.Sic.L def is causing tons of false positives

2006-05-23 Thread Kelson
bunch" of files that trigger false positives on that rule, then yes, they're going to see "tons" of them -- regardless of the number of hits in anyone else's logs. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-10 Thread Kelson Vibber
sender -- but it does the job here. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications, ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Kelson Vibber
recipient and choose a likely admin address for their domain, like [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. -- and those often exist. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications, ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Triggering freshclam with procmail

2005-12-28 Thread Kelson Vibber
Harry Phillips wrote: I was wondering if it is possible and if it is advisable to trigger freshclam when I receive a message that the daily database has been updated. I used to do this, but it's no longer necessary now that freshclam can check for updates via a DNS query. You can run it as a

Re: [Clamav-users] Worm.Sober.U not being recognized

2005-11-21 Thread Kelson
ve never used the milter, so I'm not sure what's necessary) and see if that does it. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Somebody know where find rpm packages clamav 0.87.1 for Redhat 9 / Redhat 7.3

2005-11-16 Thread Kelson
going to do this a lot, you'll want to look up how to set up a tree in your home directory so you can build as yourself. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Binary packages

2005-10-18 Thread Kelson
Kelson wrote: > Isn't that the whole point of a package manager? Never mind -- I should have read the original post and realized he was upgrading from a manually-installed ClamAV to a pacakged version. Under that circumstance, you *do* need to manually remove everything first before in

Re: [Clamav-users] Binary packages

2005-10-18 Thread Kelson
dded crontab entries, I would expect a package manager to take care of *all* of that (and maybe even save a copy of my config files in case I wanted to reinstall). I mean, that's what you get with RPM, and people are always telling me that Debian has *better* package management. -

Re: [Clamav-users] WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED

2005-07-28 Thread Kelson
rride this behavior but being a neophyte I was only able to figure out and recompile with: You're probably better off removing the RPM entirely, rather than writing over its files. It's cleaner that way, and easier to keep track of what version is actually installed. -- Kelson V

Re: [Clamav-users] Question about Virus definitions

2005-06-30 Thread Kelson
to be adding several signatures a day for variations of this virus. Presumably Sophos is looking for a more generic signature that catches several variants instead of looking for lots of specific signatures. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications

Re: [Clamav-users] For those who submitted adware/spyware samples

2005-06-17 Thread Kelson
Niek wrote: If you want protection from ad- spyware, get anti-spyware software. I don't want to start up another flame war, but I really have to ask this question: Isn't email-borne spyware more in a virus scanner's domain than phishing is? -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate

Re: [Clamav-users] scanning dll type files

2005-06-17 Thread Kelson
. Consired it as a ordinary binary file. To further clarify: Yes, ClamAV can scan DLL files, just as it can scan EXE files. They're ordinary files, so no special process is needed to scan them. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___

Re: [Clamav-users] Spam from ClamAv digest lists.

2005-05-27 Thread Kelson
messages are replicated in all of the last three issues. All I can say is, you have a strange definition of spam. It sounds to me like a glitch in the digest feature. List admins? -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ http

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

2005-05-17 Thread Kelson
connections to the same server (all to verify the same forged address), they just drop to the next MX, use up those connections and drop to the next Eventually they get down to our ultra-low priority decoy MX that we set up to attract spammers, and they land in our tar pit. -- Kelson V

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

2005-05-17 Thread Kelson
simple MX check you suggest. And even *those* solutions have problems. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Yum plus clamav

2005-05-13 Thread Kelson
ludes ClamAV, and he usually updates quickly: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] possible new virus?

2005-04-19 Thread Kelson
ed it -- or want it! -- if you just want to enable additional features on top of the defaults. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] [CLA-2005:928] Conectiva Security Announcement - clamav

2005-03-04 Thread Kelson
he CVE already lists advisories for Gentoo and Mandrake (Jan. 31) and Trustix (Feb. 11). -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Tool to upgrade

2005-03-02 Thread Kelson
ly *are* in the database, and they're the libraries you compiled, with your options, patches and optimizations, built from the newer version your distro isn't willing to package because they prefer backporting fixes to upgrading. -- Kelson Vibber

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Name

2005-02-03 Thread Kelson
would enable it. In other words... "Does anyone know which trojan/virus/etc. does this, and does ClamAV detect it?" -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

Re: [Clamav-users] Very good (short) Article on New Technique by VirusAuthors

2005-01-31 Thread Kelson
module failure ERROR" messages over the last few days. (At first I thought something had broken in 0.81, since they started the same day I upgraded.) -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

Re: [Clamav-users] Sendmail Milter

2005-01-14 Thread Kelson
/clamav/clmilter.sock,F=,T=S:4m;R:4m’)dnl define(‘confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS’, ‘clmilter’)dnl Looks to me as though you've used the wrong opening quote character. And closing quote character. IIRC, it should open with an ASCII backtick (`) and close with a (vertical) ASCII apostrophe (') -- Kel

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-17 Thread Kelson
chemes), we check for @mm, Worm., and a few specific names to decide how to handle the message. (FWIW, we use MIMEDefang to integrate the scanners and discard/reject/disinfect messages.) -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ http://lists.c

[Clamav-users] Re: defanging HTML, was ClamAV should not try to detect phishing and other social engineering attacks

2004-11-16 Thread Kelson
text converter. This can probably be done using action_external_filter, but you still need to figure out which parts to convert and which to discard, pick a parser (as Matthew pointed out, there can be security concerns here), change the mime type, etc. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV should not try to detect phishing and other social engineering attacks

2004-11-15 Thread Kelson
uses or spam tricks...dynamically rewriting all email to a "standard" format. I believe you can do this with Can-It Pro. http://www.roaringpenguin.com/ They're the authors of MIMEDefang. Can-It is their commercial product, and a much more thorough solution. -- Kel

Re: [Clamav-users] Updating to clamav 8 from 7.5 on Redhat8

2004-11-03 Thread Kelson
, clamav-milter, clamav-db, clamd) instead of just the 2 (clamav and clamav-milter) in the default RPM spec. Unfortunately, that means if you upgrade from DAG's package to a home-grown one, you can't just use rpm -Uvh like you would in most situations. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Comm

Re: [Clamav-users] If you want to post/reply to the list, read this please.

2004-09-30 Thread Kelson
*too* specific. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

Re: [Clamav-users] Notification E-mail

2004-09-22 Thread Kelson
Simple solution to the question of whether to send a notice: You know what virus was detected. You know whether it's a mass-mailer or something else. (starts with Worm., ends with @mm, a few specific others) Based on that, you can decide whether to reject it or discard it. -- Kelson V

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav and pictures

2004-09-16 Thread Kelson
essage parts handed to it, so as long as the signature is there, it should find it. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE

Re: [Clamav-users] Banned file type is not there!!

2004-09-09 Thread Kelson
access policy. It says it's banned based on the filename, not based on a virus, so I'd guess it's amavisd-new and not ClamAV. By any chance does the string ".exe" show up in the middle of the filename (something like Whatever.executives.blah)? -- Kelson Vibber

Re: [Clamav-users] Chacking clamd

2004-09-09 Thread Kelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use RedHat9 I've just installed clamav and I've started clamd. How can I chack if the daemon is really work? Is there any test virus to send to my email? See http://www.testvirus.org -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Comm

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Kelson Vibber
ll usually get there in less than the 59-minute worst-case. Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Kelson Vibber
gave up reading them. Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner

Re: [Clamav-users] New virus/worm ???

2004-08-09 Thread Kelson Vibber
one else seeing this? Tons of 'em. Run freshclam -- update 444 picks it up as Trojan.JS.RunMe. Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $

Re: [Clamav-users] Ethics Question

2004-06-11 Thread Kelson Vibber
sage to an outside consultant asking "Should we be concerned about this?" I forget whether it had come in through another channel or just before freshclam picked up the signature, but they ended up on our blacklist because of the forward. So there are risks to anything.

Re: [Clamav-users] ERROR: You must specify at least one database mirror.

2004-05-12 Thread Kelson Vibber
that is calling freshclam. Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at

Re: [Clamav-users] Recommendation RedHat replacement

2004-05-10 Thread Kelson Vibber
e packaging scheme and the same versions of everything, so third-party RPMs built for RHEL 3 should also work on WBEL. I installed it on a test box, and while I haven't done a whole lot with it, I haven't run into any problems with wha