[clamav-users] Disable specific virus signatures?

2011-11-22 Thread Shobana Narayanaswamy
Hi I am a novice at this...is there a way to disable virus signatures that are generating several false positives? Also, how do you read the virus definition database. thanks in advance ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wi

Re: [clamav-users] Disable specific virus signatures?

2011-11-22 Thread Alain Zidouemba
Please submit your FP reports here: http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/sendvirus/ You can use sigtool (sigtool --help) to look into virus definitions files. -Alain On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Shobana Narayanaswamy wrote: > Hi > > I am a novice at this...is there a way to disable virus signatu

Re: [clamav-users] Disable specific virus signatures?

2011-11-22 Thread Shobana Narayanaswamy
Is there a way to delete a signature that you are not interested in? ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [clamav-users] Disable specific virus signatures?

2011-11-22 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:47:46 -0500 Shobana Narayanaswamy wrote: > Is there a way to delete a signature that you are not interested in? Yes, please search the archives on how to whitelist sigs or look into signatures.pdf -- oo. Tomasz Kojm (\/)\. http://www.

Re: [clamav-users] Disable specific virus signatures?

2011-11-22 Thread Alain Zidouemba
You can inflate the signature archives with sigtool, find the signature you want to delete and remove it from the relevant file. -Alain On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Shobana Narayanaswamy wrote: > Is there a way to delete a signature that you are not interested in? > > __

Re: [clamav-users] Disable specific virus signatures?

2011-11-22 Thread Shobana Narayanaswamy
When I unpack daily.cvd for example, I see several files. Which one has the specific list of signatures that I could possibly delete (by placing the same name in the .ign2 file to whitelist or simply deleting it)? At 12:47 PM 11/22/2011, Shobana Narayanaswamy wrote: Is there a way to delete a

[clamav-users] Scanner memory and CPU usage

2011-11-22 Thread Shobana Narayanaswamy
Is there a way to reduce the memory footprint of the scanner? It appears to take about 220M in memory to load the virus db. Also, it takes up all of the machine's CPU while running. Is there a way to limit this (probably a general question and not specific to the scanner). __

Re: [clamav-users] Scanner memory and CPU usage

2011-11-22 Thread Török Edwin
On 11/22/2011 08:32 PM, Shobana Narayanaswamy wrote: > Is there a way to reduce the memory footprint of the scanner? It appears to > take about 220M in memory to load the virus db. Are you using 0.97.3? There were some improvements in the 0.97 series regarding memusage. Also are you using only o

Re: [clamav-users] libclamav warning

2011-11-22 Thread Török Edwin
On 11/20/2011 12:45 AM, Ben Stuyts wrote: > > On 19 nov. 2011, at 17:19, Ben Stuyts wrote: > >> >> On 18 nov. 2011, at 21:20, René Bellora wrote: >> >>> hi! >>> >>> i'm getting some warnings when scanning a directory: >>> >>> LibClamAV Warning: Bytcode 4 failed to run: Error during bytecode execu