Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
> > On Friday 13 April 2007 09:25 am, Dennis Peterson wrote: > > Freddie Cash wrote: > Heh, lucky you. =A0:) > > Out of the 4199 messages blocked as "infected" so far this month, 289 of = > > them were marked as MSRBL-Images/* by amavisd-new and clamav. =A0 $ tail -5000 /var/j*/*virus |grep -c

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-13 Thread Freddie Cash
On Friday 13 April 2007 09:25 am, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: > > On Thursday 12 April 2007 06:53 pm, Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> And just an fyi, be cautious of the MSRBL-Images file. Rechecking it > >> while I was typing this shows that with it in place it will cause > >> the cla

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-13 Thread Freddie Cash
On Friday 13 April 2007 01:35 pm, Bill Landry wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote the following on 4/13/2007 12:43 PM -0800: > >> I'm running dual proc Sun Sparc systems, and the cpu usage from > >> clamd appears to be an unhealthy kind of cpu usage. It sits at 95%, > >> and running truss does not return a

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-13 Thread Bill Landry
Freddie Cash wrote the following on 4/13/2007 12:43 PM -0800: >> I'm running dual proc Sun Sparc systems, and the cpu usage from clamd >> appears to be an unhealthy kind of cpu usage. It sits at 95%, and >> running truss does not return anything - just an empty screen. I can't >> tell what it's doi

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-13 Thread Freddie Cash
On Friday 13 April 2007 09:25 am, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: > > On Thursday 12 April 2007 06:53 pm, Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> And just an fyi, be cautious of the MSRBL-Images file. Rechecking it > >> while I was typing this shows that with it in place it will cause > >> the cla

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
Freddie Cash wrote: > On Thursday 12 April 2007 06:53 pm, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> And just an fyi, be cautious of the MSRBL-Images file. Rechecking it >> while I was typing this shows that with it in place it will cause the >> clamd cpu to rise to 90% and stay there. At 11M it may be too big to b

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-13 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thursday 12 April 2007 06:53 pm, Dennis Peterson wrote: > And just an fyi, be cautious of the MSRBL-Images file. Rechecking it > while I was typing this shows that with it in place it will cause the > clamd cpu to rise to 90% and stay there. At 11M it may be too big to be > practical. I think t

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> for 3rd party databases this can be managed with a simple script, >>> no need for >>> adding a keyring manager to ClamAV >> I swear it was just 8 weeks ago or so when we last ha

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> for 3rd party databases this can be managed with a simple script, >> no need for >> adding a keyring manager to ClamAV > > I swear it was just 8 weeks ago or so when we last had this discussion > and a

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > for 3rd party databases this can be managed with a simple script, no need for > adding a keyring manager to ClamAV > I swear it was just 8 weeks ago or so when we last had this discussion and all manner of fine ideas and scripts came out of it. Me thinks some folks need

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:25:01 -0700 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that there are two issues here, not one, and that we > don't have to achieve a perfect solution to both in order to still > improve the situation. > > By this I mean that it would be nice if clamd/fres

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 12, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:42:07 -0600 (MDT) > James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes it may be possible, but that's still no excuse for clamd to >> bail when >> presented with two sets of data files, one invalid and one valid. > > There's no

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:03:09 -0400 James Kosin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:42:07 -0600 (MDT) James Bourne > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Yes it may be possible, but that's still no excuse

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread James Kosin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:42:07 -0600 (MDT) James Bourne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yes it may be possible, but that's still no excuse for clamd to >> bail when presented with two sets of data files, one invalid and >> one val

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:54:30 -0400 James Kosin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > <--snip--> > > This can be solved using file permissions as well, eg. by running > > clamd with only read privileges to the database directory.

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:42:07 -0600 (MDT) James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes it may be possible, but that's still no excuse for clamd to bail when > presented with two sets of data files, one invalid and one valid. There's no perfect solution to this problem. The only good one I could t

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread James Kosin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomasz Kojm wrote: <--snip--> > This can be solved using file permissions as well, eg. by running > clamd with only read privileges to the database directory. > I was thinking about the possible VIRUS or TROJAN being able to gain root access by some

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread James Bourne
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:22:51 -0600 (MDT) > James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Tomasz Kojm wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:08:06 -0400 >>> James Kosin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I just tested and clamd will try t

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:22:51 -0600 (MDT) James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:08:06 -0400 > > James Kosin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I just tested and clamd will try to read any file with the extension > >> of .cvd

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread James Bourne
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:08:06 -0400 > James Kosin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just tested and clamd will try to read any file with the extension >> of .cvd in the /var/lib/clamav directory. >> My simple question is: >> "Could this pose a security or

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:08:06 -0400 James Kosin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tested and clamd will try to read any file with the extension > of .cvd in the /var/lib/clamav directory. > My simple question is: > "Could this pose a security or virus scanning problem if someone > managed to pl

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread James Kosin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luigi Iotti wrote: > To who is experiencing the *.cvd problem due to the "3rd party > scripts" in the RPM packages maintained by Petr Kristof , available > on http://crash.fce.vutbr.cz/crash-hat/5/ : > > Petr just released an upddated version of his p

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Luigi Iotti
To who is experiencing the *.cvd problem due to the "3rd party scripts" in the RPM packages maintained by Petr Kristof , available on http://crash.fce.vutbr.cz/crash-hat/5/ : Petr just released an upddated version of his packages, including the patches to the script I suggested on the list. Now th

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Steve Woods
Same problem here... I had to update clamd server and the database then the problem was resolved. Steve ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:17:12 -0400 JamesDR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:06:51 +0400 > > Anton Yuzhaninov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hello, Tomasz. > >> > >> You wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007, 5:49:04 PM: > >> > (2) ClamAV needs to

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread JamesDR
Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:06:51 +0400 > Anton Yuzhaninov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, Tomasz. >> >> You wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007, 5:49:04 PM: >> (2) ClamAV needs to change to fix the issue of a 0-byte CVD file causing it to CRASH. >>> I _doesn't_ cr

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday April 12, 2007 at 12:21:32 (PM) James Bourne wrote: > This brings a question to my mind. > > Is there any need for the old .cvd files now that clamd uses the incremental > files? I took this approach to the problem (freebsd) I shutdown clamav and freshclam. Deleted all of the files

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread James Bourne
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:06:51 +0400 >> Why it can't work with old bases in this situation? >> If it possible it will be more better than stop working. > > freshclam already takes care to not install broken data and in this case > the "broken" db (i.e. the e

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:06:51 +0400 Anton Yuzhaninov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Tomasz. > > You wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007, 5:49:04 PM: > > >> (2) ClamAV needs to change to fix the issue of a 0-byte CVD file > >> causing it to CRASH. > > > I _doesn't_ crash. It reports a critic

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
Hello, Tomasz. You wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007, 5:49:04 PM: >> (2) ClamAV needs to change to fix the issue of a 0-byte CVD file >> causing it to CRASH. > I _doesn't_ crash. It reports a critical error and terminates. Why it can't work with old bases in this situation? If it possible it

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:46:39 -0400 James Kosin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Obantec Support wrote: > > Hi > > > > clamd died again > > > > from clamd.log > > > > SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload. > > Reading databases f

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread James Kosin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Obantec Support wrote: > Hi > > clamd died again > > from clamd.log > > SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload. > Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav > ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file > Terminating because of a

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again! attachment fixed

2007-04-12 Thread Guillermo Gómez Valcárcel
el: jueves, 12 de abril de 2007 13:40 > Para: ClamAV users ML > Asunto: Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again! attachment fixed > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:20:17 +0200, Tomasz Kojm wrote > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:57:12 +0200 > > Guillermo Gómez Valcárcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again! attachment fixed

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Maidment
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:20:17 +0200, Tomasz Kojm wrote > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:57:12 +0200 > Guillermo Gómez Valcárcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have the same symptoms. > > I wrote my symptoms in another post with subject: > > "ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file" > > http:

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Maidment
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:20:17 +0200, Tomasz Kojm wrote > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:57:12 +0200 > Guillermo Gómez Valcárcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have the same symptoms. > > I wrote my symptoms in another post with subject: > > "ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file" > > http:

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:57:12 +0200 Guillermo Gómez Valcárcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the same symptoms. > I wrote my symptoms in another post with subject: > "ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file" http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20070411.175950.b7329d9f.en.html -- o

Re: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Guillermo Gómez Valcárcel
Enviado el: jueves, 12 de abril de 2007 9:09 Para: ClamAV users ML Asunto: [Clamav-users] *.cvd again! Hi clamd died again from clamd.log SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload. Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file Terminati

[Clamav-users] *.cvd again!

2007-04-12 Thread Obantec Support
Hi clamd died again from clamd.log SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload. Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file Terminating because of a fatal error.Socket file removed. Pid file removed. --- Stopped at Thu Apr 12 04:25:08 20