Re: [Clamav-users] WARNING: Suspicious recipient address blocked

2008-04-17 Thread Sloan
Eric Rostetter wrote: > Quoting "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> In general: >> >> DO NOT HARDCODE POLICY >> >> Otherwise, your tool becomes irritating or possibly even harmful. >> > > In general, don't distribute code that allows remote root exploit of systems. > >

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

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
Dennis Peterson wrote: > I've had a feeling for several posts that we have not been having the > same conversation. I've never seen anything but Windows viruses in the > nearly 30 years I've been doing this but that's not what we're talking > about. We're talking about the probability that Wind

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

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
Jason Haar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> P0f maybe? Although with my experience it has never been that accurate >> and is easy to fool if one so desires. >> > We're using p0f integrated into Qmail-Scanner to track what OS is > associated with incoming SMTP connections. > > Just to add

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

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Joe Sloan wrote: >> Perhaps our sample size is too small, but it certainly seems that this >> whole overhyped idea of viruses apart from ms windows is a non-issue in >> practice. > How are able to determine that? There's nothing in the co

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

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
Gerard wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:59:05 -0700 > Joe Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> John Rudd wrote: > >>> Just because they're in a non-windows environment doesn't mean they >>> can't possibly be sending out viruses. The

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

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
John Rudd wrote: > Just because they're in a non-windows environment doesn't mean they > can't possibly be sending out viruses. The person who expressed that > is, as I said, being naive. And, irresponsible. While it's fine to talk theory, the facts of the matter are fairly clear. We run ma

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

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
John Rudd wrote: > Joe Sloan wrote: >> John Rudd wrote: >>> Dennis Peterson wrote: >>>> And to follow up on the earlier >>>> point about Windows systems not being the sole source of spam/virus >>>> distribution, >>> The idea that an

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

2008-03-31 Thread Joe Sloan
John Rudd wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> And to follow up on the earlier >> point about Windows systems not being the sole source of spam/virus >> distribution, > > > The idea that any platform (windows, unix/linux, etc.) attached to the > net cannot be subverted into being a spam/virus z

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

2008-03-30 Thread Joe Sloan
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Joe Sloan wrote: >> It's not unthinkable, there actually are places where microsoft software >> is not used. > > Doesn't matter - there's no reason to suspect that all viruses originate > from Windows. Could I have your outgoing s

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

2008-03-29 Thread Joe Sloan
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Ben wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:37 AM, taj home <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> please dont email me. >> I'm not emailing you. > > I think he's suggesting that he'd prefer you not mail him because of > your idiot policy on outgoing virus scanning. Come now, that's

Re: [Clamav-users] Multi-OS Scanning

2008-03-17 Thread Sloan
Tyler wrote: > Does ClamAV for Linux detect a Windows or Mac virus? The clamav for linux is pretty much only for windows viruses, since linux is often used as a server for windows clients. > Is the virus database the same no matter what platform the scanner is running > on so that viruses int

Re: [Clamav-users] 0.84-RC2 - experiences?

2005-04-29 Thread Drav Sloan
Daniel J McDonald wrote: > I saw a little list chatter when 0.84-RC1 came out about a few problems. > I haven't seen any messages at all about RC2. Does that mean that > people are running it successfully and smoothly? RC2 on FreeBSD up for 3 days now... D. __

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-29 Thread Drav Sloan
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