Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter & sendmail: postmaster notificat ion

2006-01-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Dennis Peterson wrote: Chuck Swiger said: [ ... ] More specificly, I've found viral messages in the quarantine which were not recognized by ClamAV when the email went by, although a day or two later they generally will be. My virus volumes are so great (thousands daily) I'd have to hire someo

RE: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter & sendmail: postmaster notificat ion

2006-01-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
Randal, Phil said: > Dennis Peterson said: > >> I guess I don't understand the need to submit a detected and >> quarantined virus to anti-virus vendors. > > It's called being socially responsible. > > Just because ClamAV (or Bitdefender or McAfee or whatever) detected it > doesn't mean that everybo

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter & sendmail: postmaster notificat ion

2006-01-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
Chuck Swiger said: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Randal, Phil said: > [ ... ] >>>I have. It's very useful when a new virus variant arrives and is >>>detected by only one of our three virus scanners (or is blocked by >>>filetype alone). If it is quarantined I can pull out the quarantined >>>copy and

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter & sendmail: postmaster notificat ion

2006-01-06 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 6, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: Randal, Phil said: [ ... ] I have. It's very useful when a new virus variant arrives and is detected by only one of our three virus scanners (or is blocked by filetype alone). If it is quarantined I can pull out the

RE: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter & sendmail: postmaster notificat ion

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Chuck Swiger wrote: > I require my users to zip or tarball attachments before they send them. Heh. I quarantine incoming zip attachments. :) -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer __

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter & sendmail: postmaster notificat ion

2006-01-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Dennis Peterson wrote: Randal, Phil said: [ ... ] I have. It's very useful when a new virus variant arrives and is detected by only one of our three virus scanners (or is blocked by filetype alone). If it is quarantined I can pull out the quarantined copy and submit it to virusscan.jotti.org,

RE: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter & sendmail: postmaster notificat ion

2006-01-06 Thread Randal, Phil
Dennis Peterson said: > I guess I don't understand the need to submit a detected and > quarantined virus to anti-virus vendors. It's called being socially responsible. Just because ClamAV (or Bitdefender or McAfee or whatever) detected it doesn't mean that everybody else does or have even seen

RE: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter & sendmail: postmaster notificat ion

2006-01-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
Randal, Phil said: > Dennis Peterson said: > >> Regardless, anything you need to know about the message can >> be found in the logs. I've never seen a need to keep a virus >> around - even in the postmaster account or quarantine directory. > > I have. It's very useful when a new virus variant arri

RE: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter & sendmail: postmaster notificat ion

2006-01-06 Thread Randal, Phil
Dennis Peterson said: > Regardless, anything you need to know about the message can > be found in the logs. I've never seen a need to keep a virus > around - even in the postmaster account or quarantine directory. I have. It's very useful when a new virus variant arrives and is detected by onl