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

2005-06-17 Thread Matthew Schumacher
Kelson wrote: > 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? > IMHO, anything

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter without clamd

2005-02-01 Thread Matthew Schumacher
Damian Menscher wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Nigel Horne wrote: It's a great idea to have clamav-milter do it's own thing. BUT, what is its relationship with freshclam? In the clamav-milter -> clamd, you could be assured that clamd would always be aware of updates installed by freshclam. How does

[Clamav-users] How does freshclam send reload notifications to clamav-milter running in internal mode?

2005-02-01 Thread Matthew Schumacher
The subject says it all, according to the freshclam man page it sends updates to clamd via the socket: "--daemon-notify=/path/to/clamd.conf Notify the daemon about the new database. By default it reads a hardcoded config file but you can use an another one. Both local and TCP sockets are su

[Clamav-users] Clamav-milter must agree with the entry in sendmail.cf or sendmail.mc. WHY?

2005-01-31 Thread Matthew Schumacher
Why should clamav-milter be picky about this? Suppose I am using a tcp socket and the sendmail server is not local? This error checking can cause problems for people that have the sendmail package installed, but are not using for clamav. While one could argue that it isn't reasonable to have

Re: [Clamav-users] Detecting password protected rar files as virus

2004-12-31 Thread Matthew Schumacher
Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 08:40:11 -0900 Matthew Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: List, I just got a password protected rar file with a virus. Since there is very little use of password protected rar archives in legitimate email I would like to detect these as a virus.

[Clamav-users] Detecting password protected rar files as virus

2004-12-31 Thread Matthew Schumacher
List, I just got a password protected rar file with a virus. Since there is very little use of password protected rar archives in legitimate email I would like to detect these as a virus. I got the unrar tool installed and enabled ScanRAR and ArchiveBlockEncrypted but it's not detecting the fi