[Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Joao S Veiga
Hi, I was getting tons of these false positives (just reported&submitted a sample). you can delete the line: Email.FreeGame:4:*:75626a6563743a{-30}(67|47)616d65*687474703a2f2f(31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39) from /var/lib/clamav/daily.inc/daily.ndb and it will go away. It is triggered by any fil

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread John W. Baxter
On 10/3/07 7:26 AM, "Joao S Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Pagamento" (payment) is a VERY common subject in Portuguese, and having a > numeric > link anywhere after that in your mailbox or in the same email causes the false > positive. That signature is WAY too prone of false positives! So

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Joao S Veiga wrote: > Hi, I was getting tons of these false positives (just reported&submitted a > sample). > > you can delete the line: > > Email.FreeGame:4:*:75626a6563743a{-30}(67|47)616d65*687474703a2f2f(31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39) > > from /var/lib/clamav/daily.inc/daily.ndb > > and it w

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Joao S Veiga
Hi John, > think long and hard about the combination of payments and entities which are > reduced to using numeric IPs in URLs. I suspect my business goes elsewhere. Agreed :-), but the problem is (and what has caused most of my problems) that if you have an email with the Subject: Pagamento in

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Joao S Veiga wrote: > Hi John, > >> think long and hard about the combination of payments and entities which are >> reduced to using numeric IPs in URLs. I suspect my business goes elsewhere. > > Agreed :-), but the problem is (and what has caused most of my problems) that > if > you have an e

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Joao S Veiga wrote: >>> Hi John, >>> think long and hard about the combination of payments and entities which are reduced to using numeric IPs in URLs. I suspect my business goes elsewhere. >>> Agreed :-), but the problem is (an

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Bill Landry
Dennis Peterson wrote: >> I've been following this discussion for the past few days, and I got to ask >> why >> scan an mbox file in the first place? I realize that if one does choose to >> scan >> an mbox file, then the scanner should do the right thing and consider each >> message within the

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Bill Landry
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Joao S Veiga wrote: >> Hi John, >> >>> think long and hard about the combination of payments and entities which are >>> reduced to using numeric IPs in URLs. I suspect my business goes elsewhere. >> Agreed :-), but the problem is (and what has caused most of my problems)

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 10:24 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Can anyone offer a reason why the OP found a virus in the mbox file but not >> in the >> split out maildir messages? That kind of inconsistency is unsettling. > > Rather easy I guess, given your analysis of

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Joao S Veiga
Hi Dennis and others, thanks for pointing out that this has been discussed already. Sorry about that; I only searched for "Email.FreeGame" and got to this thread (I wasn't subscribing). Hi Bill, > If one is not scanning at transport time, then since the infected message has > already been deliver

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Joao S Veiga
Hi, > If one has hundreds of thousands of users, I only have 50 users; I can put those wasted watts to work at night when the servers are idle. > At some point you have to pass the responsibility onto the end user (personal > virus scanner, updated regularly), otherwise you make yourself liable

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Gerard
On Wednesday October 03, 2007 at 02:16:30 (PM) Joao S Veiga wrote: > > If one has hundreds of thousands of users, > > I only have 50 users; I can put those wasted watts to work at night when the > servers are idle. > > > At some point you have to pass the responsibility onto the end user > > (p

[Clamav-users] RFC: Recognize mbox format (was: Re: Getting line numbers)

2007-10-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:45 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Developers, read on. :) > > Somewhat simplified, the signature reads "Subject with the string game" > > and "an IP style http link". > > > > Scanning maildirs as well as scanning individual messages before > >

Re: [Clamav-users] RFC: Recognize mbox format

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:45 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > Developers, read on. :) > >>> Somewhat simplified, the signature reads "Subject with the string game" >>> and "an IP style http link". >>> >>> Scanning maildirs as well as scan

Re: [Clamav-users] RFC: Recognize mbox format (was: Re: Getting line numbers)

2007-10-03 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:47:02 +0200 Karsten Bräckelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:45 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: > > Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > Developers, read on. :) > > > > Somewhat simplified, the signature reads "Subject with the string game" > > > and "an I

Re: [Clamav-users] RFC: Recognize mbox format

2007-10-03 Thread René Berber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: [snip] > Another downside of this approach, together with ClamAV treating mbox > format files as text/plain is, that only the first hit will be reported. [snip] That was made to improve performance, the Changelog say so.

Re: [Clamav-users] RFC: Recognize mbox format

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:47:02 +0200 > Karsten Bräckelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:45 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: >>> Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> Developers, read on. :) >> Somewhat simplified, the signature reads "Subject with the strin