Re: [clamav-users] Invoke-Webrequest caused security alert (and blocking!)

2025-06-11 Thread Lyle Giese via clamav-users
Look up how to set up a local mirror. Lyle Giese On 6/11/25 10:58, Shulist, Victor (SSC/SPC) via clamav-users wrote: Unclassified | Non classifié Unclassified | Non classifié Hello ClamAV support ! I was trying to download (using Edge browser) the *.cvd files from your site.  That failed

Re: [clamav-users] 1. What causes cool blocking by clamav 2. Freshclam

2025-01-08 Thread Lyle Giese via clamav-users
those TXT records(via DNS) appears to be failing. Regards, Lyle Giese On 1/7/25 17:22, newcomer01 via clamav-users wrote: funny, my stats looking little different, then yours $ dig txt current.cvd.clamav.net ; <<>> DiG 9.18.28-0ubuntu0.24.04.1-Ubuntu <<>> txt curr

Re: [clamav-users] 1. What causes cool blocking by clamav 2. Freshclam

2025-01-07 Thread Lyle Giese via clamav-users
I could be all wrong on this, but it looks to me like DNS issues. I can ask for the TXT record for current.cvd.clamav.net and get a good response. I suspect you can not query for the current version record for some reason. Lyle Giese $dig txt current.cvd.clamav.net ; <<>>

[clamav-users] false positive from a third party defination

2024-12-12 Thread Lyle Giese via clamav-users
Not sure where I need to report this.  I am having legit email being bounced using ClamAV by this: Heuristics.Phishing.Email.SpoofedDomain(cd2d755959754996812d9dc9405de4be:121605) This email is legit from Hilton Honors. Thanks, Lyle Giese

Re: [clamav-users] clamav-users Digest, Vol 219, Issue 5

2023-02-13 Thread Lyle Giese via clamav-users
. I will admit that compiling from source is not for everyone. Lyle Giese On 2/11/23 07:36, Mike Lieberman wrote: It was suggested that: "If FreshClam is failing and you're not sure why, you may run freshclam -v for "Verbose Mode" to see the HTTP request & response detail

Re: [clamav-users] clamscan exclude-dir on Windows

2023-01-28 Thread Lyle Giese via clamav-users
I would try the 'short' names of these directories. dir /X c:\ And yes the /X is case sensitive.  /X displays the short names. Lyle Giese On 1/28/23 08:58, clamav.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: If it's expecting a regex, perhaps try:   --exclude-dir="/mnt/c/Program Fil

Re: [clamav-users] CDV file?

2022-12-14 Thread Lyle Giese via clamav-users
r has abandoned updates to the firmware in your NAS. Lyle Giese On 12/14/22 20:38, Armando P via clamav-users wrote: I'm sorry, I'm not Knowledgeable enough to know what that means. I just need to know where I can find the latest cvd file, so I can update the anti-virus software. Unfo

Re: [clamav-users] clamav milter + sendmail, sendmail not reporting reject

2022-02-08 Thread Lyle Giese via clamav-users
I just reread my message.  Reject is good behavior. Bouncing is not.  At least in my opinion.  Replace reject below with bounce and you have my correct opinion. Sorry, Lyle On 2/8/22 9:49 AM, Lyle Giese via clamav-users wrote: But the reject may NOT be going to the server/service that sent

Re: [clamav-users] clamav milter + sendmail, sendmail not reporting reject

2022-02-08 Thread Lyle Giese via clamav-users
nothing to do with the bad email sent.  This is quite common with any bad email. Lyle Giese On 2/8/22 3:50 AM, Marc wrote: So please explain, why should I not do this, and why I should care about a server that is delivering a spam message to mine? You might not care about the server that sent a

Re: [clamav-users] IP List for Virus Definition Domain

2021-09-15 Thread Lyle Giese via clamav-users
FYI, I queried from two distinct locations and got the same IP address.  I then did a traceroute from each of those locations and it took different but short routes into CloudFlare's network.  I presume they use anycast routing.(and I could be wrong). Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services

Re: [clamav-users] I have some queries about ClamAV

2015-02-02 Thread Lyle Giese
m uses the status output of ClamAV to make decisions on what to do with the file/email passed to ClamAV. This is the primary use of ClamAV on real world systems. Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services, Inc. On 02/02/15 17:37, Jihyun-Chang wrote: Hi Steven, Thank you for your feedback. I have only c

Re: [clamav-users] Cannot disable BC.Exploit.CVE_2011_3412 FP

2012-02-07 Thread Lyle Giese
On 02/07/12 16:07, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Lyle Giese: The format of local.ign is not very inituitive, IMHO. It's local.ign2 according to the docs. "Creating signatures for ClamAV" http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest/signatures.pdf 3.8 Whitelist databases To whitelist a spe

Re: [clamav-users] Cannot disable BC.Exploit.CVE_2011_3412 FP

2012-02-07 Thread Lyle Giese
update that changes the line number for that definition will also render the local.ign useless. It does work and I have used it, but every time I need it, it takes me more than one try to get it right. Especially since I only use it once every 3 or 4 months at best and it's case sensi

[clamav-users] False Positive - INetMsg.SpamDomain-2w.dl_dropbox_com.UNOFFICIAL

2011-07-07 Thread Lyle Giese
This is a message I hand created with a valid link to a dropbox file. I can post a copy of the orginal message if desired. Thanks, Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services, Inc. 2011-07-07 19:47:38.00:Info:-373696176: msg: log_reason [4124389] Dropped: 2607:fcb8:4480:2::1 1521 <4e1653aa.

Re: [Clamav-users] can?t compile 0.96.3

2010-09-23 Thread Lyle Giese
is no newer bzip2 then 1.0.5 in my distro > but anyway, configure should be able to tell Vulnerability within < > infiniteness > > > Thanks, > Hajo > ___ I am seeing the same hang here on openSuSE 10.2(x86-64). This system has bzi

Re: [Clamav-users] How can i scan the POST data

2010-02-21 Thread Lyle Giese
You proably won't find their code using ClamAV. More likely is that they will inject code in an HREF or some java to download the malicious content from a different site. My experience is that that they won't inject code that will be detected by ClamAV, but will inject a pointer to their code

Re: [Clamav-users] Install upgrade from 94 to 95.2 freschclam clamscan failure

2009-09-13 Thread Lyle Giese
da...@davidwbrown.name wrote: > Hello, I have been running ClamAV (clamd) for some time. I decided to upgrade > to 95.2. The configure, make, make install executed without incident. As a > test I tried to execute freshclam and clamscan from the root command-line > with the following error condit

Re: [Clamav-users] exceptions where?

2009-08-16 Thread Lyle Giese
ing clamAV. Phishing in clamAV will cause more FPs, IMHO, than it's worth. I do have Phishing turned off. But clamAV does find enough stuff that it's worth running behind the Barracuda. Plus if something bad happens to the Barracuda, I still have something to scan for viruses

Re: [Clamav-users] Newbie question.

2009-03-11 Thread Lyle Giese
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > Hello, > > On 10.03.09 21:35, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > please set up your mailer to wrap lines below 80 characters per line. 721 to > 76 is usually OK. > > >> I am running fedora 10, thunderbird 2.0.0.9 and firefox 3.0.7 and I would >> like to install clamav to ca

[Clamav-users] FYI SaneSecurity

2008-12-14 Thread Lyle Giese
FYI Just found this: http://www.sanesecurity.com/ They have shutdown temporarily because of a DDoS problem. ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus not detected on Linux/MacOSX

2008-09-20 Thread Lyle Giese
Austin Try unsubscribing as per the instructions in the header of this message. Lyle Austin Brown wrote: > PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS LIST > > THANKS > > >> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:28:07 -0700 >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net >> Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Viru

Re: [Clamav-users] maliciout javascript in WWW pages

2008-08-28 Thread Lyle Giese
ake any harm, especially on proxy) > > I can provide some examples if you need... > Instead of clamav, I would recommend squidGuard and some blacklist lists there. It's more suited to this task than clamAV. ClamAV probably still won't find the malicious javascript and squidGu

[Clamav-users] clamd seg faulting (ver 0.93)

2008-04-16 Thread Lyle Giese
that freshclam is changing out the clamav database at the same time clamd is trying to reload it and causing clamd to crash? I will monitor this closely and see if there is a correlation between the two events going forward and report back on same. Thanks, Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services, Inc

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory usage for clamd is huge

2008-03-30 Thread Lyle Giese
if you were scanning outgoing email, you can catch this before you are blacklisted. Scanning outgoing email is not just a simple matter of trusting your own users. It's part of a good security plan and acknowledging that something can happen and it makes sense to scan outgoing email to make sure it's trusted just like you do to incoming email. Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services, Inc. ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Source code for test/clam.exe?

2007-12-24 Thread Lyle Giese
Cort, Tom wrote: > Hello, > > clamav comes with a sample virus (ClamAV-Test-File) for testing > purposes. It's located in the clamav source tarball in the 'test' > directory and named 'clam.exe'. I'd like to distribute it with a free > software program I maintain, but I can't find the corresponding

Re: [Clamav-users] I need to refute a 'security expert'

2007-11-16 Thread Lyle Giese
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/16/2007 02:52:34 PM: > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Hello all. >>> >>> We've had some consultant make the spurious claim that Clam AV >>> >> only scans for 'windows viruses' and is really only useful for >> 'scanning em

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam Stopped Working

2007-10-30 Thread Lyle Giese
You also have to remember that if your internal dns server is listed in resolv.cfg, it will be queried. And because it's local, your dns queries will gravitate to them as it will probably give back answers faster than the external servers. Lyle Sean McGlynn wrote: > I lied. > > The DNS server ord

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam Stopped Working

2007-10-30 Thread Lyle Giese
Sean McGlynn wrote: > Hello, > > After changing our DNS services from Netware to OES Linux/BIND, freshclam > stopped getting updates. > > When we run freshclam we get: > > WARNING: Can't query current.cvd.clamav.net and > WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode. > Connecting via Ou

Re: [Clamav-users] Automatic reloading of signature files

2007-08-31 Thread Lyle Giese
While this may not directly answer your question, I am running the update script for the addons at 17 minutes past the hour. And run freshclam at 21 minutes past the hour.(I don't update the addons every hour...) But I also see in /var/log/messages, clamd doing a selfcheck on the databases every

Re: [Clamav-users] FreshClam and DNS - Debian

2007-07-26 Thread Lyle Giese
Is nscd running on the same host that is running freshclam? On the host running freshclam, what does your /etc/resolv.conf look like? Lyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Today we upgraded our DNS server which is Debian Bind9 ver 1:9.3.4-2etch1. > We also upgraded our ClamAV software to th

Re: [Clamav-users] cannot resolve www.sanesecurity.co.uk

2007-07-16 Thread Lyle Giese
nd now I run two scripts alternately. One pointed at http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/clamav-sig and the other script attempts to connect to www.sanesecurity.co.uk Lyle Giese ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net

Re: [Clamav-users] scanPDF Usage

2007-07-10 Thread Lyle Giese
chael McCandless wrote: > No, I did not enable-experimental when I compiled. > > -Original Message- > From: Lyle Giese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:42 PM > To: ClamAV users ML > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] scanPDF

Re: [Clamav-users] scanPDF Usage

2007-07-10 Thread Lyle Giese
When you compiled clamav, did you enable-experimental? Lyle Michael McCandless wrote: > I am using Clamav (0.90.3), compiled from source, on Fedora Core 7. I have > checked documentation, wiki, and mailing list archives. > > My clamd.conf file includes the following: > > # This option enables sc

[Clamav-users] Clamdmon.sh

2007-04-11 Thread Lyle Giese
I am amazed at the number of people here that apparently not using SOMETHING to monitor clamd. Esp. when the developers include a nice script to check and restart clamd. I run three different mail servers and quickly found clamdmon and just a bit of PERL programming created a means of being notif

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav vs norton

2007-03-02 Thread Lyle Giese
In this case, was the file really infected or did Norton throw a false positive? At this point, we really don't know which product is producing an error. How about downloading AVG and scanning this file again?( they have free and trial versions) Lyle Jim Maul wrote: Sean Pinegar wrote: I

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV & Squid

2006-08-11 Thread Lyle Giese
Odhiambo Washington wrote: * On 11/08/06 08:18 -0500, Lyle Giese wrote: | I recently installed a Squid proxy server for one of my customers. We | would like to wedge in ClamAV for scanning and looking over the | selections of open source software for this, I decided to try out | SquicClamAV

[Clamav-users] ClamAV & Squid

2006-08-11 Thread Lyle Giese
I recently installed a Squid proxy server for one of my customers. We would like to wedge in ClamAV for scanning and looking over the selections of open source software for this, I decided to try out SquicClamAV by Gilles Darold.(http://www.samse.fr/GPL/squidclamav/) Unfortunately, it's doesn