Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming conventions?

2005-05-26 Thread guenther
> I just started using ClamAV and it is performing great so far. :) > > As I prefer to call ClamAV from procmail (actually, I used YAVR before, > a procmail only based virus signature scanner) my current setup is > procmail / clamassassin / clamdscan. > > > Rather than dumping all Virii to a si

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming conventions?

2005-05-21 Thread guenther
> On a related note: I am using clamassassin [1], but shortly after I > installed it the website and mailing list seems to be down. Does anyone > know anything about it? FYI only, up and working again. ...guenther -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0;

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Naming

2005-04-10 Thread Róth Tamás
Depending on your tool set: sigtool -l |sort |uniq -c |sort -rn |less will show you the details. I think it's not a big deal - unique names are not necessarily needed. A virus with 1000 variants means a lot of -xxx's and that makes for a pretty messy report. I'd sure hate to see the genus, phyla, s

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Naming

2005-04-10 Thread Dennis Peterson
Damian Menscher said: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Jose Celestino wrote: >> Words by Damian Menscher [Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:34:58AM -0500]: >>> >>> Actually, it's worse than you think. Try piping through sort before >> >> Worse? How come worse? >> >>> sending it through uniq, and you'll find another 4

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Naming

2005-04-10 Thread Damian Menscher
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Jose Celestino wrote: > Words by Damian Menscher [Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:34:58AM -0500]: >> >> Actually, it's worse than you think. Try piping through sort before > > Worse? How come worse? > >> sending it through uniq, and you'll find another 400 duplicates (you

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Naming

2005-04-10 Thread Jose Celestino
Words by Damian Menscher [Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:34:58AM -0500]: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-2] Róth Tamás wrote: > > >sigtool -l | wc -l > >32207 > > > >sigtool -l | uniq | wc -l > >31912 > > Actually, it's worse than you think. Try piping through sort before Worse? How come worse? > s

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Naming

2005-04-10 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:44:57 +0200 Róth Tamás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > i have a small question on the virus naming, if i run the following > two lines on Linux i get different result, any reason for this? > > sigtool -l | wc -l > 32207 > > sigtool -l | uniq | wc -l > 31912 > >

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Naming

2005-04-10 Thread Damian Menscher
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-2] Róth Tamás wrote: sigtool -l | wc -l 32207 sigtool -l | uniq | wc -l 31912 Actually, it's worse than you think. Try piping through sort before sending it through uniq, and you'll find another 400 duplicates (you only saw 300, but there are actually 700). Damian

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-18 Thread jef moskot
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Nigel Horne wrote: > What tests do you have for false positives with RTBL? The good lists allow you to manually de-list yourself in a few seconds, so even if you take no other precautions, there should never be a case where a user can't send legit mail (unless their machine is

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-18 Thread Nigel Horne
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 13:20 -0700, Philip Ershler wrote: > Does your e-mail system have the means of using RTBL (Real Time Black List) > servers? If so you might want to try that. Our spam load decreased > remarkably after we implemented our RTBL. What tests do you have for false positives with R

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-17 Thread Philip Ershler
on 12/17/04 2:31 PM, Carnegie, Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> >>> on 12/17/04 1:09 PM, Carnegie, Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >>> >>> Does your e-mail system have the means of using RTBL (Real Time Black > List) >>> servers? If so you might want to try that. Our spam load decr

RE: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-17 Thread Carnegie, Martin
>> >> on 12/17/04 1:09 PM, Carnegie, Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Does your e-mail system have the means of using RTBL (Real Time Black List) >> servers? If so you might want to try that. Our spam load decreased >> remarkably after we implemented our RTBL. >> >> My 2 cents, >> >> P

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-17 Thread Philip Ershler
on 12/17/04 1:26 PM, Dennis Peterson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> on 12/17/04 1:09 PM, Carnegie, Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Does your e-mail system have the means of using RTBL (Real Time Black List) >> servers? If so you might want to try that. Our spam load decreased >> rema

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
> > on 12/17/04 1:09 PM, Carnegie, Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does your e-mail system have the means of using RTBL (Real Time Black List) > servers? If so you might want to try that. Our spam load decreased > remarkably after we implemented our RTBL. > > My 2 cents, > > Phil If you

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-17 Thread Philip Ershler
on 12/17/04 1:09 PM, Carnegie, Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Pardon, I didnt mean to imply that clamav doesnt provide the name of > the >> virus as well. The point i was trying to make was that clamav itself >> doesnt know or care about what is actually done after the virus is >> dete

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-17 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:09:31 -0700 "Carnegie, Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again thanks for the feedback. Looks like I can drop Symantec :) It's always good to have two or more independent scanners. -- oo. Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\. http

RE: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-17 Thread Carnegie, Martin
>Pardon, I didnt mean to imply that clamav doesnt provide the name of the >virus as well. The point i was trying to make was that clamav itself >doesnt know or care about what is actually done after the virus is >detected. That part is left up to something else (qmail-scanner in my >case).

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-17 Thread Jim Maul
Jason Haar wrote: Jim Maul wrote: This is not really a function of the av scanner, but rather a function of the program which is used to call the av scanner. clamav just says YES or NO it is a virus or isnt. Just as an example, im using qmail with qmail-scanner and clamav. qmail-scanner has t

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-17 Thread Jason Haar
Jim Maul wrote: This is not really a function of the av scanner, but rather a function of the program which is used to call the av scanner. clamav just says YES or NO it is a virus or isnt. Just as an example, im using qmail with qmail-scanner and clamav. qmail-scanner has the ability to def

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-17 Thread Kelson
Carnegie, Martin wrote: This is the ability to identify mass-mailing viruses based on the name of the virus detected. For example the W32.Beagle (or Bagle) from Symantec shows up as [EMAIL PROTECTED] This means that can then drop any messages with the @mm instead of just removing the attachment a

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-17 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 10:56 -0700, Carnegie, Martin wrote: > Hello all, > > Yep another newbie question. > > We are currently looking at switching to Clamav from Symantec SMTP and > there is one feature that I really like from Symantec that I cannot find > in Clamav (at least I cannot find). Thi

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus naming

2004-12-17 Thread Jim Maul
Carnegie, Martin wrote: Hello all, Yep another newbie question. We are currently looking at switching to Clamav from Symantec SMTP and there is one feature that I really like from Symantec that I cannot find in Clamav (at least I cannot find). This is the ability to identify mass-mailing viruses b