Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Dave Warren
In message <004701cadd95$cfec35b0$6fc4a1...@biz> "Giampaolo Tomassoni" was claimed to have wrote: >> And if the server owners / sysadmins feel that sending mail is more >> IMPORTANT than sending clean mail, they do not not need to install any >> AV software and their mail system will happily send

Re: [Clamav-users] What mental midget shut down my server?

2010-04-16 Thread Dave Warren
In message <9203dabf-59fb-4462-9ca5-7d90fb265...@edisoninfo.com> Gary MacKay was claimed to have wrote: > >On Apr 16, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Eric Rostetter wrote: > >> Quoting Gary MacKay : >> >>> OK, who's the mental midget that decided to just up >>> and kill all installations of clamav ??? >> >>

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-20 Thread Dave Warren
In message <4bce64a1.8040...@cwa.co.nz> Steve Wray was claimed to have wrote: >The thing is that there are a few little issues here that, as points of law >are not clear yet. In what follows words like 'vendor' may not be used >entirely legally precisely, IANAL, but I am certain that with a bit

Re: [Clamav-users] illegal or not, make a valid argument (was "no subject")

2010-04-21 Thread Dave Warren
In message Simon Hobson was claimed to have wrote: >Here we go again, you are introducing something irrelevant to try and >justify your actions. Yes, I know what the licence says - but that >merely says I cannot expect support from you, and I can't complain if >it doesn't work. That still doe

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamscan delays

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Warren
be clean, anything which clamscan doesn't pass can sit in the queue until clamdscan recovers, since my current method doesn't let me pull individual errors out for each file without relaunching clamscan against each message individually. It's a bit of a hack, but it's

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan extremly slow

2007-06-18 Thread Dave Warren
t a clamd failure, I fall back to running clamscan in a loop that pauses 10 seconds at a time to let a few messages build up before clamscan runs (in other words, to avoid relaunching clamscan for every message) I haven't seen a clamd failure in many moons though, so I'm not sure the added compl

Re: [Clamav-users] Vote for ClamAV as the best anti-malware solut ion

2007-10-26 Thread Dave Warren
ge that fact that it's a privacy statement. At least they're honest about it. -- Dave Warren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: (403) 775-1700 / (888) 300-3480 ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] WARNING: Suspicious recipient address blocked

2008-04-15 Thread Dave Warren
record. I, for one, have made it a point to not care. >This has >been a pretty standard thing to do for a long time, and with even more >characters than the milter currently uses. Can we get any email address banned in clamav just because at least one software package has an associated

Re: [Clamav-users] Why is ClamAV signature file so unpopular?

2008-11-29 Thread Dave Warren
can trust the signature file? Anyone in a position to compromise one would almost definitely be able to compromise the other. -- Dave Warren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: (403) 775-1700 / (888) 300-3480 ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV gu

Re: [Clamav-users] Why is ClamAV signature file so unpopular?

2008-11-30 Thread Dave Warren
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jan Pieter Cornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was claimed to have wrote: >On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 02:52:53PM -0800, Dave Warren wrote: >> >When I go to the download page for ClamAV at SourceForge, >> >I observe that the signature file (

Re: [Clamav-users] Why is ClamAV signature file so unpopular?

2008-12-01 Thread Dave Warren
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was claimed to have wrote: >Dave Warren wrote: > >> True, but you could make it realistic enough to fool most of the people, >> most of the time, especially with a readme.txt noting that

Re: [clamav-users] Question about the clamdscan

2018-03-21 Thread Dave Warren
This still has value as it can help catch things in action. It doesn't replace periodic scans either to catch malware discovered since the initial scan. There are a variety of ways of doing this if scanning everything in one shot isn't feasible. One option would be to split files up using a hash

Re: [clamav-users] VirusDB Updates Broken?

2018-06-26 Thread Dave Warren
As that is a Cloudflare IP, I believe it possibly could represent one or more backend mirrors as it may return different content depending on the hostname provided. On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, at 06:41, Robin Bourne wrote: > Joel, > > I'm now getting "WARNING: Mirror 104.16.188.138 is not synchronized

Re: [clamav-users] I have no idea if my emails are getting through.

2018-07-24 Thread Dave Warren
On 2018-07-24 22:29, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: I'm not sure what the latest state of windows support is. Judging by lack of reponses that you find helpful, not many people use it either. One note here: Not many Windows users install it themselves. I'm betting the vast majority use it as part of

Re: [clamav-users] Latest report on update "delays"

2018-10-23 Thread Dave Warren
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018, at 11:50, Paul Kosinski wrote: > "...it works smoothly for a very large number of people, myself > included." > > It would be interesting to know what percentage have experienced our > original problem of all mirrors ending up blacklisted. I also wonder > how many ClamAV user

[Clamav-users] Re: Speed of ClamAV vs Norton AV

2006-10-16 Thread Dave Warren
t it will take ClamAV (or anyone other then Symantec) more then a week to get the definitions updated? -- Dave Warren, MSN Instant Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (204) 480-8407 Toll free: (888) 371-3470 Fax: (204) 283-6028

[Clamav-users] Re: Why is scanning so slow?

2006-10-19 Thread Dave Warren
-r ... Cygwin is a huge performance hog. You might want to try the native port at http://w32.clamav.net/ -- Dave Warren, MSN Instant Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (204) 480-8407 Toll free: (888) 371-3470

[Clamav-users] Re: To ClamAV Developers: donation question

2006-11-08 Thread Dave Warren
rds, you are looking for a tax write off. You've never worked with corporate accountants, have you? Without a paper trail, the (correct) assumption is that the money is in whoever approved the expense's pocket. -- Dave Warren, MSN Instant Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pho

[Clamav-users] Re: To ClamAV Developers: donation question

2006-11-08 Thread Dave Warren
(or authorized if it's paid directly), I'd damn well better listen to the accountant. There. Now with all of that being said, year end is coming, time to do some open-source donations to projects that make my professional life easier. ClamAV will probably be on that list since it's d

[Clamav-users] Re: DB Update email before actual update available?

2006-12-28 Thread Dave Warren
ors >would die. That's why the TTL for current.cvd.clamav.net is 900 >secs and not a few secs. > >Best regards Although should that ever become that serious an issue, the solution would be to simply delay the emails so that they go out over a period of 900 seconds, spreading the load e

[Clamav-users] Re: DB Update email before actual update available?

2006-12-29 Thread Dave Warren
monitors too, in the software world. In the hardware world, an unnoticed overheat will result in the equipment going down, which would trigger whatever monitors that box to report failures. Is it self-healing? No -- But not everything can heal itself. Whether the outage is noticed by the use

[Clamav-users] Re: Why does clam die on a malformed database ?

2006-12-30 Thread Dave Warren
ations. If having an email delayed causes significant financial implications, you've got more serious underlying issues. SMTP is a best-effort process, there is absolutely no guarantee of delivery at all, let alone timely delivery. -- Dave Warren, MSN Instant Messenger:

Re: [clamav-users] local server takes time to update clamav db

2020-12-13 Thread Dave Warren via clamav-users
On 2020-12-11 08:51, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote: "The whole CVD filename is not versioned (always "daily.cvd") which is why the CloudFlare caching issue may result in serving the previous version." HTML filenames for Web pages are not versioned either. Does this mean that CDNs like Clo

Re: [clamav-users] local server takes time to update clamav db

2020-12-13 Thread Dave Warren via clamav-users
wrote: > Both of those things are done as well. > > Sent from my  iPhone > > > On Dec 13, 2020, at 19:24, Dave Warren via clamav-users > > wrote: > > > > On 2020-12-11 08:51, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote: > >> "The whole CVD filen

Re: [clamav-users] Linode Clam AV Updates

2021-03-22 Thread Dave Warren via clamav-users
On 2021-03-22 13:56, Grant Taylor via clamav-users wrote: On 3/22/21 1:53 PM, Grant Taylor via clamav-users wrote: I'm both curious and want to make sure that what my Linode is (and has been) doing is not a problem. I want to make sure: 1)  That what my Linode is doing is not a problem.  -- 

Re: [clamav-users] Request for guidelines to connect freshclam to Squid proxy

2021-04-30 Thread Dave Warren via clamav-users
A firewall's job is to regulate unwanted/undesired traffic and to enforce policy as defined by the business, not to invent it. If the business policy is to allow virus definition updates then the firewall should be configured to do so. If not, it should be blocked completely. Anything else is

Re: [clamav-users] Update problem today

2022-04-25 Thread Dave Warren via clamav-users
On 2022-04-25 11:14, Paul Smith via clamav-users wrote: The problem 'magically' disappeared as soon as the 26522 update was published, so, to me, it really looks as if there were bad files on one of the mirrors. The later update would have replaced that with a correct file, so it all works agai

Re: [clamav-users] Database updated over unencrypted connection?

2019-03-16 Thread Dave Warren via clamav-users
On 2019-03-15 09:53, Franky Van Liedekerke via clamav-users wrote: I wonder why the http/https discussion is still relevant. Almost all sites use https now, http is getting slowly banned and a lot of companies just don't want to allow incoming http traffic towards a server. Certifcates cost not

Re: [clamav-users] LSD Malwares

2019-04-25 Thread Dave Warren via clamav-users
The same applies: Report it. Cloudflare will either forward the complaint for you, or block the offending URL (or both). On 2019-04-25 19:16, Dennis Peterson wrote: That domain is hosted on a cloudflare IP block. They're become part of the problem. dp On 4/25/19 7:52 AM, J.R. via clamav-user