Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Julio Canto wrote: Phil Ershler wrote: Every 10 minutes is much to often. There was a thread about this issue just a while ago. The consensus was 1 to 4 hours and not exactly on the hour. If everybody ran freshclam every 10 minutes, the server would croak. Phil For the shake of reducing the 'u

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Julio Canto
Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: Yes. There's nothing that prevent you running freshclam (or whatever your updater will be) every minute or so. However, with the default check time of one hour (default for RPM packages, that is), mirrors already uses lots of bandwitdh (over 100 GB a month each), so please

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Nigel Horne
Is it possible to use HEAD to reduce load? -Nigel -- Nigel Horne. Arranger, Composer, Typesetter. NJH Music, Barnsley, UK. ICQ#20252325 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bandsman.co.uk --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price o

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Nigel Horne wrote: Is it possible to use HEAD to reduce load? I believe it already uses RANGE, so traffic wise the load is greatly reduced. However, if every user decides to set checks every minutes the bottleneck will be in maximum connection. This will not happen if version checks is done vi

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Thomas Lamy
Julio Canto wrote: Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: Yes. There's nothing that prevent you running freshclam (or whatever your updater will be) every minute or so. However, with the default check time of one hour (default for RPM packages, that is), mirrors already uses lots of bandwitdh (over 100 GB a mon

Re: [Clamav-users] Leak on Linux 2.4

2004-08-20 Thread Matt
Lutz Petersen wrote: > > > It appears people that report 'memory leaks' are running either > > Solaris or FreeBSD. It may be that there is a library on those systems > > that leaks memory. > > We administrate nearly 50 Linux Server (mostly debian, some suse, one > redhat). No solaris and no fr

Re: [Clamav-users] Mac OS X installation?

2004-08-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 19, 2004, at 9:24 PM, Randall Perry wrote: on 8/18/04 8:55 AM, Bart Silverstrim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best way I've found is to install Fink and install ClamAV using Fink (Fink Commander). VERY easy to keep updated to the latest ClamAV using Fink (although you do need to keep runni

[Clamav-users] Clamav and Squid / SquidGuard

2004-08-20 Thread Micheal Patterson
Has anyone managed to get anything working with Clamav using squidguard and another package to scan traffic as it enters the proxy? I read on the main site that Viralator supports clamav, but the current download available, viralator-09pre2.zip, has no provisions for clamscan at all withi

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav and Squid / SquidGuard

2004-08-20 Thread Hanford, Seth
> Has anyone managed to get anything working with Clamav using squidguard > and another package to scan traffic as it enters the proxy? I read on > the main site that Viralator supports clamav, but the current download > available, viralator-09pre2.zip, has no provisions for clamscan at all > w

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Kelson Vibber
At 02:13 AM 8/20/2004, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: Nigel Horne wrote: Is it possible to use HEAD to reduce load? I believe it already uses RANGE, so traffic wise the load is greatly reduced. Wouldn't it be more efficient to use Etags and/or If-Modified-Since and let the server issue a "304 Not Modifie

[Clamav-users] clamscan hangsup the mail system clamdscan crashes.

2004-08-20 Thread Dale Anderson
I am using qmail with qmail-scanner 1.20. Clamav 0.75. When I configure qmail-scanner to run clam scan it run great for sometime then the Mail server will get clogged with clamscan running about 40 or so processes at the same time. The system is so bogged down the mail clients timeout. I tried to r

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan hangsup the mail system clamdscan crashes.

2004-08-20 Thread Damian Menscher
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Dale Anderson wrote: > I am using qmail with qmail-scanner 1.20. > Clamav 0.75. When I configure qmail-scanner to run > clam > scan it run great for sometime then the Mail server > will get clogged with clamscan running about 40 or so > processes at the same time. The system i

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread D.J. Fan
sudo crontab -e add at the end */10 * * * * /path/to/freshclam --quiet NO! Once an hour is reasonable, but not 6 times an hour! I agree, I think a better way is to add a file to the /etc/cron.d directory with the contents of the file: # m h dom mon dow user command 11 */2 * * * clamav /path/to/fr

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Rajanikanth P
Hello D.J. Fan, But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. And within this 55 minutes thousands and thousands of say ..a worm which is in

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread D.J. Fan
But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. And within this 55 minutes thousands and thousands of say ..a worm which is in wild arrives to

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Lionel Bouton
Rajanikanth P wrote the following on 08/21/2004 12:31 AM : Hello D.J. Fan, But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. And within this 55 m

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread rkudyba
> Do you realize that no antivirus can provide a signature until : > - someone has witnessed an infection (or infection attempt), > - reported it to the virus db maintainers, > - the signature has been engineered > - tested (no obvious false positives), > - then finally publicly released ? > > No m

RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Rajanikanth P wrote: > Hello D.J. Fan, > > But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at > 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna > check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. > And within this 55 minutes thousands and thou

RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Matthew van Eerde wrote: > Rajanikanth P wrote: > > Hello D.J. Fan, > > > > But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at > > 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna > > check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. > > And wi

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Kelson Vibber
At 03:31 PM 8/20/2004, Rajanikanth P wrote: But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. And within this 55 minutes thousands and thousands

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Todd Lyons
Rajanikanth P wanted us to know: >Hello D.J. Fan, > >But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at >6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna >check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. >And within this 55 minutes thousands a

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Todd Lyons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: >What about companies that are purporting and actually selling appliances >or applications that claim to stop viruses as they break out based on >heauristics and/or pattern matching? Are they just blowing smoke? No, they're just looking for deltas in establish

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread D.J. Fan
No matter how often you check for new sigs, you'll always have at least several hours between a new worm hits the Net and a signature comes to your local antivirus installation. IMHO to the question : "What do I do ?" the most logical answer is : "explain to your users what a new virus is and h

[Clamav-users] Clamscan take long time to process a file

2004-08-20 Thread kengheng
Dear All, I've a mail server that running clamscan 0.75.1. I found that the clamscan will take many hours to scan a 5M email with ppt attachement? I've noticed it that it can take up 10 hrs and the process still running, and use all the CPU processing, I think something went wrong with the cla

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamscan take long time to process a file

2004-08-20 Thread Damian Menscher
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, kengheng wrote: >I've a mail server that running clamscan 0.75.1. I found that the > clamscan will take many hours to scan a 5M email with ppt attachement? I've > noticed it that it can take up 10 hrs and the process still running, and use > all the CPU processing, I think