I've heard of a new strategy for spreading viruses/worms. The victim
receives a message with an attached passworded zip file. The password is
included in the text of the message.
Granted, we should hope that our users should be educated enough to not
fall for this, but if we had educated users i
On Thursday 04 December 2003 10:58 am, jef moskot wrote:
> I've heard of a new strategy for spreading viruses/worms. The victim
> receives a message with an attached passworded zip file. The password is
> included in the text of the message.
>
> Granted, we should hope that our users should be e
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:58:46AM -0500, jef moskot wrote:
> I've heard of a new strategy for spreading viruses/worms. The victim
> receives a message with an attached passworded zip file. The password is
> included in the text of the message.
>
> Any ideas for how to handle this situation?
Wo
password-encrypted zip file, and when one is found, attempt decryption using
each word in the body of the message it's attached to as the potential
password.
I would send the password printed in a .gif or .jpg file. Do not forget,
e-mail scannig is only one part of the defense line against t
Anyone tested this against commercial products, that could provide
another counter argument if they too have problems scanning under this
condition.
Even if McAfee and the likes can scan such a file, you then wonder who
truly has control over privacy and what not.
Christopher X. Candreva wrote
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:58:46 -0500 (EST)
jef moskot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've heard of a new strategy for spreading viruses/worms. The victim
> receives a message with an attached passworded zip file. The password
ClamAV can handle such attacks as well - if an archive seems to be clear
i
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, jef moskot wrote:
> I've heard of a new strategy for spreading viruses/worms. The victim
> receives a message with an attached passworded zip file. The password is
> included in the text of the message.
Off-hand I don't see this being a large threat. You are counting on peop
Hiya,
ClamAV is in the news. Today heise.de published an article about web.de
and there new use of ClamAV. That article (in German) can be found at:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hob-04.12.03-000/
For all non-Germans of you I made a quick translation of the German
text. Please, I do not sh
How much you want to bet that they either #1 didn't bother to update the
definitions #2 aren't telling people that they have some sort of connection
or agreement with one of the big vendors? This like FUD to the extreme. I
run ClamAV alone here and it has yet to let a single virus through.
--
Hello
I have a problem and I installed a MailScanner and the Clamav six time and
the RH9, three.
In the maillog, when MailScanner analyzes the message (a mail with eicar.com
attached), it write
Dec 4 17:25:13 mailx postfix/smtpd[5447]: connect from
mailx.tecnoware.inf.br[192.168.10.199]
Dec 4
# clamdscan --version
clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.65
]# clamdscan
connect(): No such file or directory
ERROR: Can't connect to clamd.
--- SCAN SUMMARY ---
Infected files: 0
Time: 0.001 sec (0 m 0 s)
any ideas? clamav.conf file? or permissions issues?
-
On Thursday 04 December 2003 7:29 pm, Luciano wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a problem and I installed a MailScanner and the Clamav six time and
> the RH9, three.
>
> In the maillog, when MailScanner analyzes the message (a mail with
> eicar.com attached), it write
>
> ***Dec 4 17:25:18 mailx MailScan
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:55, McKeever Chris wrote:
> thanks for your reply. Not sure I follow. wouldnt finding it signla a virus and
> then the process that called clamd (in this case
> qmialscanner) take the necessary actions?
I think the original poster has been mis-quoted. I read it as:
Vi
Hello Brian,
Thursday, December 4, 2003, 8:31:11 PM, you wrote:
BB> How much you want to bet that they either #1 didn't bother to update the
BB> definitions #2 aren't telling people that they have some sort of connection
BB> or agreement with one of the big vendors? This like FUD to the extreme.
* Christopher X. Candreva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 04. 2003 15:50]:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, jef moskot wrote:
>
> > I've heard of a new strategy for spreading viruses/worms. The victim
> > receives a message with an attached passworded zip file. The password is
> > included in the text of the mess
Alex Pleiner wrote:
Hiya,
ClamAV is in the news. Today heise.de published an article about web.de
and there new use of ClamAV. That article (in German) can be found at:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hob-04.12.03-000/
For all non-Germans of you I made a quick translation of the German
text.
Antony Stone wrote:
On Thursday 04 December 2003 7:29 pm, Luciano wrote:
Hello
I have a problem and I installed a MailScanner and the Clamav six time and
the RH9, three.
In the maillog, when MailScanner analyzes the message (a mail with
eicar.com attached), it write
***Dec 4 17:25:18 mailx Mai
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003, Christoph Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thursday, December 4, 2003, 8:31:11 PM, you wrote:
>
> BB> How much you want to bet that they either #1 didn't bother to update the
> BB> definitions #2 aren't telling people that they have some sort of connection
> BB> or agreeme
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:16:35PM +0100, Christoph Cordes wrote:
>
> Oh - and of course there are viruses that can?t be recognized by clam
> - tons of them,
This statement suggests supporting
statistics of real world viruses passing
throught clam, versus other av packages...?
-
McKeever Chris wrote:
# clamdscan --version
clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.65
]# clamdscan
connect(): No such file or directory
ERROR: Can't connect to clamd.
--- SCAN SUMMARY ---
Infected files: 0
Time: 0.001 sec (0 m 0 s)
any ideas? clamav.conf file? or permissions issues?
I sugge
Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003, Christoph Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thursday, December 4, 2003, 8:31:11 PM, you wrote:
BB> How much you want to bet that they either #1 didn't bother to update the
BB> definitions #2 aren't telling people that they have some sort of connectio
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003, Thomas Lamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> > I'd argue that many of those viruses are insignificant. There are very
> > clear parallels between these viruses and say smallpox. No one cares
> > about it anymore because it's all but extinct.
> >
> > Who
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:13 , Thomas Lamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>McKeever Chris wrote:
>
>> # clamdscan --version
>> clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.65
>>
>>
>> ]# clamdscan
>> connect(): No such file or directory
>> ERROR: Can't connect to clamd.
>>
>> --- SCAN SUMMARY ---
>>
>From CVS today (devel-20031204)
When compiling clam with --enable-milter I get this error:
gcc -g -O2 -o clamav-milter clamav-milter.o ../clamd/cfgfile.o
../clamd/others.o
../clamscan/getopt.o -L/home/userx/clamav-devel/libclamav -L/usr/lib/libmil
ter -lmilter -lpthread
../clamd/cfgfile.o:
Internet Helpdesk wrote:
From CVS today (devel-20031204)
When compiling clam with --enable-milter I get this error:
gcc -g -O2 -o clamav-milter clamav-milter.o ../clamd/cfgfile.o
../clamd/others.o
../clamscan/getopt.o -L/home/userx/clamav-devel/libclamav -L/usr/lib/libmil
ter -lmilter
There is no LIBS variable in the Makefile
Did you mean CLAMD_LIBS or LIBCLAMAV_LIBS?
-Troy
> From CVS today (devel-20031204)
>
> When compiling clam with --enable-milter I get this error:
>
> /home/userx/clamav-devel/clamd/cfgfile.c:108: undefined reference to
> `cli_str
Internet Helpdesk wrote:
There is no LIBS variable in the Makefile
Did you mean CLAMD_LIBS or LIBCLAMAV_LIBS?
-Troy
From CVS today (devel-20031204)
When compiling clam with --enable-milter I get this error:
/home/userx/clamav-devel/clamd/cfgfile.c:108: undefined reference to
`cli_strtok
o LIBS variable in the Makefile
Did you mean CLAMD_LIBS or LIBCLAMAV_LIBS?
-Troy
> From CVS today (devel-20031204)
>
> When compiling clam with --enable-milter I get this error:
>
> /home/userx/clamav-devel/clamd/cfgfile.c:108: undefined reference to
> `cli_strtok'
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