[Clamav-users] Why are new releases listed as "bugfix" rather than "security" releases?

2008-12-05 Thread McDonald, Dan
A new version of clamav was released this week, along with the typical "this is a bugfix release" announcement. Along comes the end of the week, and SANS reports a vulnerability [1] in the previous version. It's a lot easier to get linux distro folks to make new packages for security releases. W

[Clamav-users] Problem running virus scanner: code=999

2008-12-05 Thread Richard J. Kieran
I can't believe I got not a single response to this, so I'm trying again: I'm running clamd with MIMEDefang on a CentOS machine. Once in a while there will be a day when there are many "Problem running virus scanner: code=999" errors, anywhere from 1 or 2 (who cares?) to 4486 (now I'm concerned.

[Clamav-users] new clamav-milter

2008-12-05 Thread aCaB
Hi all, In case you haven't noticed a redesigned clamav-milter is now in SVN. That's actually a complete rewrite which doesn't share much with the previous codebase and which lacks a bunch of features previously available. The goal is to be simple and scan emails. The most notable difference is th

Re: [Clamav-users] Non-Windows Malware

2008-12-05 Thread Derek Currie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 4, 2008, at 12/04, 8:21 PM, I wrote: >> What then is the benefit of Clamav on the Mac platform? On Dec 4, 2008, at 12/04, 10:27 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote: > same reason why it's on Linux.. to protect windows users. Yes, but I already acknowled

Re: [Clamav-users] Problem running virus scanner: code=999

2008-12-05 Thread Noel Jones
Richard J. Kieran wrote: > I can't believe I got not a single response to this, so I'm trying again: > > I'm running clamd with MIMEDefang on a CentOS machine. Once in a while there > will be a day when there are many "Problem running virus scanner: code=999" > errors, anywhere from 1 or 2 (who

Re: [Clamav-users] How to mirror the signatures?

2008-12-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Edwin, Am 2008-12-04 11:04:28, schrieb Török Edwin: > See: http://clamav.net/support/faq "I???m running ClamAV on a lot of > clients on my local network. Can I serve the cvd files from a local > server so that each client doesn???t have to download them from your > servers?". > > I'd recomm

[Clamav-users] How to handle "cli_readn" and other errors while running "clamscan -r /" v 0.94.2 on Ubuntu 8.10 ?

2008-12-05 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Hi. I just got Ubuntu 8.10 (32-bit) with the Ubuntu ClamAV package (v0.94.2). I am getting lots of errors while running sudo clamscan -r / Errors like WARNING: Can't open file /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/sr/bind LibClamAV Error: cli_readn: read error: Function not implemented LibCl

[Clamav-users] How to test ClamAV?

2008-12-05 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Ok, so how do I test ClamAV? There is no mention of this in http://www.clamav.net/support/faq I did find on the Wiki the following, but it's out of date, clam.cab is no longer shipped with the 0.94.2 tar.gz source distribution: * The following files are included into clamav-*.tar.gz and are no

Re: [Clamav-users] How to test ClamAV?

2008-12-05 Thread Brandon Perry
When you compile ClamAV, use --enable-check (iirc) and make sure you have check installed. Then, when it is done compiling, you can run `make check` and it will check itself :-). On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Ok, so how do I test ClamAV? > > The

Re: [Clamav-users] How to test ClamAV?

2008-12-05 Thread Andy
EICAR http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm VX heavens http://vx.netlux.org/vl.php On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Brandon Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you compile ClamAV, use --enable-check (iirc) and make sure you have > check installed. Then, when it is done compiling, you

Re: [Clamav-users] How to test ClamAV?

2008-12-05 Thread Rob
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 03:06:41PM -0800, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Ok, so how do I test ClamAV? > > So where do people get viruses to test ClamAV with? Are you wanting to see that ClamAV is properly configured in your environment or are you ensuring it finds the viruses that you test it wit

Re: [Clamav-users] How to test ClamAV?

2008-12-05 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
That's great, thanks all! I've downloaded and used the EICAR test file. Best, Aleksey ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml