Re: [clamav-users] Submitting False Negatives

2017-01-22 Thread Christopher Marczewski
Hi Tim, Did you get a chance to submit that archive of false negatives? Just need a hash of the archive to find it in our repositories. On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Tim Tepatti wrote: > Sounds good to me, I'll submit them in an archive then. > > Also, another question: If a virus is picked

Re: [clamav-users] Submitting False Negatives

2017-01-11 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
Are you using the most updated version of the tool? It should work. -- Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 11, 2017, at 11:07 AM, Tim Tepatti wrote: > > Hello, > > I recently started using ClamAV and have a small database of virus samples > on my computer. I noticed that when scanning some of these

Re: [clamav-users] Submitting False Negatives

2017-01-11 Thread Al Varnell
The new naming conventions no longer include a virus name. That has been true since the most recent main.cvd was released. I believe this is because of the amount of manual effort required to determine exactly what a malware sample is and the lack of uniformity in naming malware across the indus

Re: [clamav-users] Submitting False Negatives

2017-01-11 Thread Tim Tepatti
Excuse my ignorance, sorry. Why is the name given so generic? With other AVs I'm used to names like "Linux.Net-Worm.Virus_Name.a" that include a name, so when I saw "Agent-(numbers)" I figured it was a generic name. On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Alain Zidouemba wrote: > Unix.Malware.Agent-18

Re: [clamav-users] Submitting False Negatives

2017-01-11 Thread Alain Zidouemba
Unix.Malware.Agent-1847425 is not a heuristics detection. - Alain On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Tim Tepatti wrote: > Sounds good to me, I'll submit them in an archive then. > > Also, another question: If a virus is picked up as a generic > "Unix.Malware.Agent-1847425", does that mean that t

Re: [clamav-users] Submitting False Negatives

2017-01-11 Thread Tim Tepatti
Sounds good to me, I'll submit them in an archive then. Also, another question: If a virus is picked up as a generic "Unix.Malware.Agent-1847425", does that mean that the sample was detected as malicious through heuristics or something like that, but the actual specific sample isn't known? Thanks

Re: [clamav-users] Submitting False Negatives

2017-01-11 Thread Christopher Marczewski
Hi Tim, For the time being, I would compress the samples and submit the resulting archive file. Be sure to mention this in the Description field of the form. You can also send the file name to me, and I'll make sure the samples get processed. On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Tim Tepatti wrote: