Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-04-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
> > Hi, > > > I've done some research on the best way to integrate it, but hoped > someone could point me to a current document that outlines how to do > this and help me answer some of my questions. The best way to integrate them is to follow the instructions at Steve's web site (Sane Security

Re: [Clamav-users] Update problem on daily.cld

2010-04-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/29/10 7:06 AM, Adam Stephens wrote: That error doesn't come from the mirrors; it comes from freshclam - the message is in manager.c, and it's triggered by this check in mirman.c: if(mdat->dbflevel && (mdat->dbflevel > flevel) && (mdat->dbflevel - flevel > 3)) if(time(NULL) - mdat->mirtab[

Re: [Clamav-users] byte code compiler configure issues

2010-05-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/2/10 8:14 AM, Tom Shaw wrote: Trying now let you know in about 10 10.5.8 right now. 10.6 after we get this working Tom I was able to compile .96 in Snow Leopard with no modification. dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit h

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/2/10 9:59 AM, Alex wrote: Hi, Why are some of the databases duplicated in the clamav root dir and also in the unofficial-dbs/ss-dbs directory, such as winnow_malware.hdb? The rsync protocol only downloads the changes between the local and remote files, so the local file much be available

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-05-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/3/10 12:09 AM, Mark wrote: On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Sarocet wrote: The ClamAV team didn't design the AV to stop on getting a special signature. That signature could exist due to a bug that you decided not to fix (by not updating/patching). It was a clever use of a bug to disable the d

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/3/10 8:45 AM, Alex wrote: Hi, Dennis Peterson wrote: Rsync is able to transfer only the differences between two files provided a version of the file being transferred exists on the source and the destination. In addition, rsync will not transfer anything if it determines there are no

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/3/10 8:45 AM, Simon Hobson wrote: It's actually more efficient than that ! It uses something similar to a rolling checksum to find throughout the file. So in principal, you can add a short bit to the front of a large file, or even chop a file up into chunks and rearrange them, and it will

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/3/10 9:43 AM, Bill Landry wrote: If you are seeing three copies of each unofficial database, then you have a problem somewhere. This topic is really OT for the ClamAV mailing list. My net nanny buzzer went off. dp ___ Help us build a comprehe

Re: [Clamav-users] Some doubts about Clamav upgrade

2010-05-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/4/10 1:25 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: Add the volatile repo to /etc/apt/sources.list, if it's not already there. Then it's a simple: aptitude update aptitude install clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam aptitude will install everything else automatically. Does it first uninstall the existin

Re: [Clamav-users] FW: [clamav-virusdb] Update (daily: 10917) --about Virus.MSExcel.Agent.c

2010-05-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/4/10 8:01 PM, eric wrote: Strange, clamav has been update, but still cannt found Virus.MSExcel.Agent.c , Any idea will be appreciate. It's there. It isn't called Virus.MSExcel.Agent.c: X97M.Escape:0:*:74696d6576616c7565{-14}22737461727475702e786c732179636f7022*6f6e2e73746172747570 dp _

Re: [Clamav-users] Some doubts about Clamav upgrade

2010-05-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/4/10 5:56 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/4/10 1:25 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: Add the volatile repo to /etc/apt/sources.list, if it's not already there. Then it's a simple: aptitude update aptitude install clamav-dae

Re: [Clamav-users] safebrowsing updates CPU hog

2010-05-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/12/10 3:58 PM, Wolfgang Breyha wrote: Hi! In the last week I noticed several times that freshclam needs up to 30 minutes using a full CPU to update safebrowsing database. Most of the time the next update shows Empty script safebrowsing-20426.cdiff, need to download entire database What's

Re: [Clamav-users] notification when clamd engine outdated

2010-05-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/13/10 7:54 AM, Cliff Hayes wrote: Hello, I am a system administrator who manages many servers and need a way to programatically ping clamd on a server and get a response which I can interpret to mean clamd is ok or the engine needs to be updated. Unfortunately, I often get overwhelmed and d

Re: [Clamav-users] [Windows] How does ClamAV compare with closed-source alternatives?

2010-05-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/12/10 12:59 PM, Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: ClamWin Free Antivirus is based on ClamAV engine and uses GNU General Public License by the Free Software Foundation, and is free (as in freedom) software. To find out more about GNU GPL, please visit the following link: Philosophy of the GNU Projec

Re: [Clamav-users] [Windows] How does ClamAV compare with closed-source alternatives?

2010-05-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/13/10 7:10 PM, Jason Haar wrote: On 05/13/2010 01:57 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: No, ClamAV for Windows currently does not use the ClamAV engine (although there is talk of adding it in). It instead uses Immunet's cloud-based antivirus. http://www.immunet.com/protect Huh? That comes as a sh

Re: [Clamav-users] [Windows] How does ClamAV compare with closed-source alternatives?

2010-05-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/13/10 10:19 PM, Jason Haar wrote: On 05/14/2010 02:52 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/13/10 7:10 PM, Jason Haar wrote: Why is Sourcefire allowing a third-party to use their brandname (and linking to their site) when it doesn't use ClamAV code itself? It supports other AV vendor pro

Re: [Clamav-users] Tiered freshclam updates on port443

2010-05-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/10/10 8:43 AM, Eddie Ekwo wrote: Hello Everyone. I am new to using ClamAV and I have searched through the mail archives for help/pointers on setting up a tired freshclam update environment. I have got a server that has access to the internet on port 80, so updates from internet are not a

[Clamav-users] Duplicate signature files

2010-05-20 Thread Dennis Peterson
While testing my build of 0.96.1 today I was alerted by a screen message on starting clamd that I had two bytecode files - compressed and uncompressed. I removed the uncompressed file and restarted clamd. Later I checked the log to see if there was more information I could add to logwatch and th

Re: [Clamav-users] Duplicate signature files

2010-05-20 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/20/10 10:27 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: While testing my build of 0.96.1 today I was alerted by a screen message on starting clamd that I had two bytecode files - compressed and uncompressed. I removed the uncompressed file and restarted clamd. Later I checked the log to see if there was

Re: [Clamav-users] Duplicate signature files

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 12:16 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On 05/21/2010 08:40 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/20/10 10:27 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: While testing my build of 0.96.1 today I was alerted by a screen message on starting clamd that I had two bytecode files - compressed and uncompressed. I removed

Re: [Clamav-users] Duplicate signature files

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 7:17 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On 05/21/2010 05:15 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: This is Solaris 9 on Sparc. OK, I'll do some tests on Solaris9/Sparc. Is everything OK on Solaris10/Sparc? Haven't built that one yet. I'm still trying to understand what hap

Re: [Clamav-users] Duplicate signature files

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 7:17 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On 05/21/2010 05:15 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: I don't get this error, what OS/arch is this? ERROR: Failed to load new database: Malformed database This message was in freshclam's log though, right? This is Solaris 9 on Sparc. OK, I&

Re: [Clamav-users] Duplicate signature files

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 8:06 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On 05/21/2010 05:49 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: I just repeated this test (manually dl bytecode.cvd and test it with clamscan) My configuration is probably different than yours, that is why it fails for you and not for me. That is why I asked for output

Re: [Clamav-users] Duplicate signature files

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 8:14 AM, Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: If your using wget: form the man pages under -c option Note that you don’t need to specify this option if you just want the current invocation of Wget to retry downloading a file should the connection be lost midway through. This is th

Re: [Clamav-users] Tiered freshclam updates on port443

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 8:33 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: It may not have happened on your network, but it's (filtering outbound traffic) saved our bacon several times over the years, especially back in the Code Red/Nimda days. And, in an educational setting (I work for a school district now), you definitely do

Re: [Clamav-users] Duplicate signature files

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 8:22 AM, Török Edwin wrote: -lmalloc? That looks like something related to the memory allocation failure? Can you try without it? And I'll try to see if I can reproduce the problem with -lmalloc. Yep it fails with -lmalloc here. Please remove that from LDFLAGS, and it should work

Re: [Clamav-users] upgrade to 0.96.1

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/21/10 9:28 PM, ClamAV List wrote: Hi, I upgraded to 0.96.1. Whenever I restart clamd, it will prompt me the error below. Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: LibClamAV Warning: Detected duplicate databases /var/clamav/main.cvd and /var/clamav/main.cld, please manually remove one of them Whic

[Clamav-users] Reload process

2010-05-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
Has the team explored the notion of checking MD5 hashes of signature files before deciding to reload them? Is it even possible to reload only those that have changed since the last reload? dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http:

Re: [Clamav-users] Reload process

2010-05-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/22/10 1:12 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On 05/22/2010 08:34 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: Has the team explored the notion of checking MD5 hashes of signature files before deciding to reload them? This might be useful if partial reloads would be supported, but see below. clamd checks the

Re: [Clamav-users] [Windows] How does ClamAV compare with closed-source alternatives?

2010-05-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/13/10 11:46 PM, Török Edwin wrote: On 05/14/2010 08:19 AM, Jason Haar wrote: On 05/14/2010 02:52 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/13/10 7:10 PM, Jason Haar wrote: Why is Sourcefire allowing a third-party to use their brandname (and linking to their site) when it doesn't use ClamAV

Re: [Clamav-users] Reload process

2010-05-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/25/10 7:51 AM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2010 16:27:48 +0200 Sarocet wrote: Tomasz Kojm wrote: This scenario makes no much sense to me. First of all, as I wrote in the previous email the files you provided as example are almost identical (they only differ in high nibbles of six by

Re: [Clamav-users] PUA.HTML.Infected.WebPage-1

2010-06-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 6/3/10 5:57 AM, Steve Basford wrote: You can use 'sigtool -fPUA.HTML.Infected.WebPage' to find and print the sigs, no need to unpack. Also works for: sigtool -fSanesecurity.Phishing.Fake.13780 | sigtool --decode-sigs Could a --database type option be added to sigtool, for loading database

Re: [Clamav-users] PUA.HTML.Infected.WebPage-1

2010-06-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 6/3/10 6:24 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: This is brute force but works: grep -h Sanesecurity.Phishing.Fake.13780 * 2>/dev/null |sigtool --decode-sigs dp It's brute force but apparently so too is the sigtool method. Grep is faster. dp

Re: [Clamav-users] Some questions about clamav update

2010-07-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
> > On 07/06/2010 09:38 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > Hi, JD-- > > > So, the fedora distro people screwed up by setting it to level 44 in the > source code? > Is it possible you installed only a clam client and not the full suite? > So, should I be bringing this up with the fedora team? Check

Re: [Clamav-users] Some questions about clamav update

2010-07-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
> > On 07/06/2010 10:28 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: > >>On 07/06/2010 09:38 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > >>> Hi, JD-- > >>> > >> So, the fedora distro people screwed up by setting it to level 44 in the > >> source code? > >> &g

Re: [Clamav-users] clamdscan errors

2010-07-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 7/6/10 3:27 PM, JD wrote: I ran: $ sudo clamdscan -l /tmp/clamdscan.log /sda1 /sda1 is the mount point for my windows partition. I got tons of error mssages like this one: /sda1/WINDOWS/Installer/265ad74.msp: Can't create temporary directory ERROR In what directory is clamdscan trying to

Re: [Clamav-users] clamdscan errors

2010-07-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 7/6/10 5:31 PM, JD wrote: On 07/06/2010 05:00 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: clamconf |grep TemporaryDir $ clamconf |grep TemporaryDir TemporaryDirectory = "/var/tmp" TemporaryDirectory disabled Is that what's causing it? The disabled setting? Where do I enable it? Now that

Re: [Clamav-users] clamdscan errors

2010-07-07 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 7/6/10 11:59 PM, JD wrote: On 07/06/2010 05:57 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: Now that we see you have a discrepancy we need to know where it is. run clamconf |less then look through the output to find the two lines above. The output includes the configuration of clamd, freshclam, and clamav

Re: [Clamav-users] Mobile devices?

2010-07-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 7/26/10 4:27 AM, Moray Henderson wrote: Now that mobile telephones have become advanced (stupid?) enough to require virus protection, can ClamAV be usefully run on a mobile? Or can anyone recommend free AV software for mobile devices? Virus protection is a heavy weight process that does not

Re: [Clamav-users] MSRBL signatures?

2010-08-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 8/2/10 7:48 PM, Alex wrote: Hi all, I was thinking of implementing the MSRBL signatures, as they are described on the sanesecurity site, but it appears they haven't been updated in quite some time. I wouldn't have considered it, except that they are listed on the sanesecurity site. Are they

Re: [Clamav-users] MSRBL signatures?

2010-08-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 8/3/10 12:35 AM, Steve Basford wrote: I've discontinued using them because of the lack of activity. I've also shut off SecuriteInfo and because of false positives, InetMsg signatures. Hi Dennis, If any FP's are reported here: false_positive AT sanesecurity DOT me DOT uk And surely the p

Re: [Clamav-users] MSRBL signatures?

2010-08-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 8/6/10 6:20 PM, Bill Landry wrote: On 8/6/2010 9:42 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 8/3/10 12:35 AM, Steve Basford wrote: I've discontinued using them because of the lack of activity. I've also shut off SecuriteInfo and because of false positives, InetMsg signatures. Hi Denni

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV Releases

2010-08-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 8/16/10 11:38 AM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: Dear users, ClamAV 0.96.2 was released on August 12, 2010. If you missed it check it out here: http://www.clamav.net/download/sources. Highlights include: It's compiled and runs fine in Solaris 9 and 10, and RHEL 5.4, here. 9.6.1 did not put a notice

Re: [Clamav-users] Functionality level warning message after upgrade to 0.96.2

2010-08-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 8/23/10 7:45 AM, Jean Jacques Siebrits wrote: WARNING: Current functionality level = 44, recommended = 51 rpm -qi clamav Sorry, I forgot to mention it was a source installation. Configuration string was: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/var/run/clamav --enable-milter

Re: [Clamav-users] exclude path

2010-09-05 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/5/10 12:11 PM, Ted the insane wrote: Hello, How to exclude path form clamd? And without Clamuko. Thank you Best regards ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml Try somethin

Re: [Clamav-users] Tracking false positives

2010-09-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/14/10 1:55 AM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:54:28 +0100 Steve Basford wrote: In addition, there a brilliant Third-Party signature decoder here, which will easily show you the content of the Third-Party signature, just cut/paste or type in the signature name and it'll decode

[Clamav-users] DatabaseDirectory location

2010-09-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
Has any thought been given to allowing optional additional database directory locations? I've never been real happy mixing the "OFFICIAL" signatures with the "UNOFFICIAL" signatures, and there are some pragmatic reasons for avoiding this intermingling. Perhaps: DatabaseDirectoryIncludePath /v

Re: [Clamav-users] Again - clamav.whitelist file

2010-09-15 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/15/10 5:58 AM, cla...@pcez.com wrote: Hello, Let's try it again. I did not get a response last time so I will try it again not trying to insult anyone with my stupidly. I'm trying to use the whitelist file without much success. Could someone post your "clamav.whitelist" file so I can see

Re: [Clamav-users] Tracking false positives

2010-09-15 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/15/10 7:47 AM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:22:48 -0700 Dennis Peterson wrote: Time tests of sigtool --find-sigs compared to grep. The output of either sigtool or grep can be piped back in to sigtool --decode-sigs: $ time sigtool --find-sigs Sanesecurity.Spam.10995

Re: [Clamav-users] Tracking false positives

2010-09-15 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/15/10 11:15 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:05:02 -0700 Dennis Peterson wrote: On 9/15/10 7:47 AM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:22:48 -0700 Dennis Peterson wrote: Time tests of sigtool --find-sigs compared to grep. The output of either sigtool or grep can

Re: [Clamav-users] Again - clamav.whitelist file

2010-09-15 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/15/10 10:02 AM, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:36:44 -0700 Dennis Peterson articulated: Some of us see that request as a breach of etiquette as well as a security risk. I really don't wish to publish my free pass info :) So you enter random data in the fields. T believe tha

Re: [Clamav-users] VirusAction Question

2010-09-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/21/10 9:55 PM, Nathan Gibbs wrote: * Nathan Gibbs wrote: I won't say that my implementation is the best way, it certainly isn't pretty, but it works. Now will the REAL C CODERS PLEASE STAND UP! Do it right and show me how its done. Better yet, just do it right the first time, and I won'

[Clamav-users] Success: clamav-096.3

2010-09-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
It builds and runs without weirdness on Solaris 9, Sparc, gcc 3.3.2, Solaris 10, Sparc, gcc 3.4.2, Apple OS X Snow Leopard 32-bit, gcc 4.2.1, Snow Leopard Server 64-bit, gcc 4.2.1, and Red Hat Linux 5.4, gcc 4.1.2. I'm happy here. And yes, 3.3.2 is getting pretty old and tired. dp

Re: [Clamav-users] VirusAction Question

2010-09-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/22/10 6:58 AM, Nathan Gibbs wrote: Those guys could do this better than me any day of the week. They could code circles around me, but so far they won't. what does that tell you? They have higher priorities. dp ___ Help us build a comprehensi

Re: [Clamav-users] Tracking false positives

2010-09-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/27/10 1:24 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, In addition, there a brilliant Third-Party signature decoder here, which will easily show you the content of the Third-Party signature, just cut/paste or type in the signature name and it'll decode it: http://www.sanesecurity.com/clamav/decodesigs.htm Some

Re: [Clamav-users] block attachment with certain file endings (also in archives)

2010-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/27/10 11:55 PM, Török Edwin wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:36:15 +0200 If you want to reject by content, you can do that as well (only for nonencrypted archives of course) by writing a signature for your filetype, and treating it as if it was a virus. Rather than depend on file extension

Re: [Clamav-users] block attachment with certain file endings (also in archives)

2010-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/28/10 5:40 AM, Daniel McDonald wrote: On 9/28/10 2:05 AM, "Dennis Peterson" wrote: On 9/27/10 11:55 PM, Török Edwin wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:36:15 +0200 If you want to reject by content, you can do that as well (only for nonencrypted archives of course) by writing a

Re: [Clamav-users] Unable to install ClamAV 96.3.

2010-09-30 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/30/10 8:57 PM, Syed Zubair wrote: This is what I get when I try to install ClamAV 96.3: Help configure: Summary of engine detection features autoit_ea06 : yes bzip2 : bugged (CVE-2010-0405) zlib: /usr unrar :

Re: [Clamav-users] Unable to install ClamAV 96.3.

2010-09-30 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/30/10 10:10 PM, Al Varnell wrote: Apple released an upgrade to bzip2 a few days ago - did you install it? I don't think so. I just checked the user and developer support downloads and there's no sign of it. It has been available from third party porting publishers, but nothing heard

Re: [Clamav-users] Unable to install ClamAV 96.3.

2010-09-30 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/30/10 10:22 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 9/30/10 10:10 PM, Al Varnell wrote: Apple released an upgrade to bzip2 a few days ago - did you install it? I don't think so. I just checked the user and developer support downloads and there's no sign of it. It has been available

Re: [Clamav-users] Unable to install ClamAV 96.3.

2010-09-30 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/30/10 10:36 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 9/30/10 10:22 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 9/30/10 10:10 PM, Al Varnell wrote: Apple released an upgrade to bzip2 a few days ago - did you install it? I don't think so. I just checked the user and developer support downloads and there

Re: [Clamav-users] Unable to install ClamAV 96.3.

2010-10-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/30/10 10:44 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 9/30/10 10:36 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 9/30/10 10:22 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 9/30/10 10:10 PM, Al Varnell wrote: Apple released an upgrade to bzip2 a few days ago - did you install it? I don't think so. I just checked the use

Re: [Clamav-users] Unable to install ClamAV 96.3.

2010-10-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 10/1/10 3:24 AM, TR Shaw wrote: Al Just compile bzip2 from the source. Thats what I did and everything was fine. Tom The bzip2 source is a mess that requires much customization to build as the author hasn't the resources to put it together right. It builds fine in Solaris, not so fine o

Re: [Clamav-users] Unable to install ClamAV 96.3.

2010-10-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 10/1/10 11:30 PM, Al Varnell wrote: On 10/1/10 12:07 AM, "Dennis Peterson" wrote: A short term solution until Apple updates bzip2 is to install MacPorts if not already installed, and use it to install bzip2. It will install it in /opt/local so you need to add an option to y

Re: [Clamav-users] Unable to install ClamAV 96.3.

2010-10-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 10/4/10 9:20 AM, Al Varnell wrote: On 10/4/10 7:51 AM, "Dennis Peterson" wrote: On 10/1/10 11:30 PM, Al Varnell wrote: On 10/1/10 12:07 AM, "Dennis Peterson" wrote: A short term solution until Apple updates bzip2 is to install MacPorts if not already installed, a

Re: [Clamav-users] Unable to install ClamAV 96.3.

2010-10-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 10/4/10 10:03 AM, Al Varnell wrote: On 10/4/10 9:39 AM, "Erwan David" wrote: On 04/10/10 18:25, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 10/4/10 9:20 AM, Al Varnell wrote: On 10/4/10 7:51 AM, "Dennis Peterson" wrote: On 10/1/10 11:30 PM, Al Varnell wrote: On 10/1/10 12:07

Re: [Clamav-users] Unable to install ClamAV 96.3.

2010-10-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 10/4/10 6:03 PM, Al Varnell wrote: I troubleshoot ClamXav for users and it's important for me to not get ahead of the ClamXav developer or Apple, so I must leave things as they are until Mark has a chance to compile and release 0.96.3 and or Apple gets around to fixing bzip2. I just don't

Re: [Clamav-users] Unable to install ClamAV 96.3.

2010-10-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 10/4/10 6:25 PM, Al Varnell wrote: otool gives me identical results I've got a PPC so I'm still at Leopard 10.5.8. $ ls -l *bz2* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 282048 Nov 11 2008 libbz2.1.0.4.dylib -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 282048 Jun 17 2009 libbz2.1.0.5.dylib lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel

Re: [Clamav-users] Unable to install ClamAV 96.3.

2010-10-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 10/4/10 8:29 PM, Al Varnell wrote: Could it be that clamd was somehow compiled with 1.0.2? It appears that your library is 1.0.2 regardless of what the binary might be. Did you ever do a restore of you /lib? That's most frequently how libs get mysteriously backleveled. Assuming it was ever

Re: [Clamav-users] Locating Infected Files in Logs

2010-10-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 10/29/10 6:22 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: My question is where or how can I see what the location of the two infected files are? I looked at /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log& didn't see anything there when grep'ing for the word "infected". In my logs I look for "FOUND". dp ___

Re: [Clamav-users] Locating Infected Files in Logs

2010-10-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 10/29/10 11:28 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 10/29/10 6:22 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: My question is where or how can I see what the location of the two infected files are? I looked at /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log&didn&#

[clamav-users] An interesting list-related message

2011-02-07 Thread Dennis Peterson
=== quote = Subject: Re:[Clamav-users]Locating Infected Files in Logs Hi Dennis: Can you answer this one regarding infected files. The log file is on stdout as follows: is this reading the ClamAV files are infected? How do I get rid of the 45 infected files if they are really infected.

Re: [clamav-users] daily database broken again

2011-02-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 2/28/11 7:30 AM, Török Edwin wrote: Maybe we should tag all our new signatures with 0.96.4+ (ldb, bytecode, and ndb at least)? Of course that means that 0.95 would be even less effective at detecting malware than it already is (no VI/IDB/CBC support there), but apparently people running 0.95

Re: [clamav-users] daily database broken again

2011-03-05 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/5/11 8:36 AM, Jim Preston wrote: You have missed the point, my system does serve my needs to the extent that upgrading the OS is not worth the benefit till now. A major cause is the lack of a clean upgrade path from the early FC versions. The recommended method was a clean install. Since v

Re: [clamav-users] [Clamav-users] Tracking false positives

2011-03-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/6/11 1:43 PM, Alex wrote: The MBL_144360 is still present in the mbl database, but now it doesn't match. That signature has a big google footprint. I found it here, for example: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.virus.clamav.sanesecurity/3094 It would seem there is a QA pro

Re: [clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/16/11 7:24 AM, Russ Tyndall wrote: On Mar 15, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: One thing you might consider doing is using "find /location -mtime 1" to generate a list of which files have been modified over the past day, and only scanning these via clamdscan -f. I experimented wi

Re: [clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/18/11 10:18 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:22 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: Since you're thinking in this direction you may discover locate is faster than find though it has issues of it's own as well as opportunity. See more at man locate. Locate searches a

Re: [clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/18/11 11:12 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: Yes, and while locate is great for older files, is not really intended for detecting files which have appeared over the past day on a fileserver. By default, the locate DB is only rebuilt once a

Re: [clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/18/11 11:29 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: [ ... ] Took a while but you're at least thinking. Please spare the readers of the list this sort of pointless sarcasm. *plonk* That wasn't sarcasm. It was a compl

Re: [clamav-users] Improving Scan Speeds on OS X.4.11

2011-03-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/19/11 5:51 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote: As Mr. Petersen says there are few restrictions on the databases, and it would seem that 'updatedb' and 'locate' are well-suited to the task if the OP is happy with a non-real-time approach. Locate will find directories and dump the contents. That is pr

Re: [clamav-users] Access has been denied page

2011-04-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/14/11 7:00 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 4/14/2011 9:49 AM, Antonio Pereira wrote: Thanks I ad put in MBL_200562.UNOFFICIAL instead of MBL_200562 I reloaded clamav and now it works. I would have done the same thing if I hadn't looked at the Sanesecurity file first. I think "UNOFFICIAL" i

Re: [clamav-users] Access has been denied page

2011-04-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/14/11 7:21 AM, Nathan Gibbs wrote: * Dennis Peterson wrote: It is a non-optional logging feature of ClamAV. I'd like to see a config option in there to turn it on or off. As it is I edit the source code at each build and turn it off. Could you send me your code for that? I'l

Re: [clamav-users] Access has been denied page

2011-04-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/16/11 1:50 PM, Nathan Gibbs wrote: Which is right along the lines of what the OP wants. The OP wanted ( Re: *.UNOFFICIAL Virus Names ): "It is a non-optional logging feature of ClamAV. I'd like to see a config option in there to turn it on or off. As it is I edit the source code at each bu

Re: [clamav-users] Access has been denied page

2011-04-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/17/11 1:35 PM, Nathan Gibbs wrote: * Steve Basford wrote: I receive .UNOFFICIAL reports too, which aren't produced by Sanesecurity, so instead I forward them on and/or whitelist. This page shows FP contact details for all the .UNOFFICIAL ones http://www.sanesecurity.com/clamav/fps.ht

Re: [clamav-users] Access has been denied page

2011-04-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/17/11 1:28 PM, Nathan Gibbs wrote: * aCaB wrote: On 04/17/11 05:05, Dennis Peterson wrote: Adding the hard-coded UNOFFICIAL reduces some liability from the Clamav team. Which is why it shouldn't be changed in the underlying libclamav. That! And lots of daily annoyances wi

Re: [clamav-users] freshclam update hung

2011-05-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/26/11 7:27 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: Two different servers, in two different data centers, trying to pull the latest safebrowsing list, hung, cpu 100% Having a similar problem with the Canadian pool at IP: 24.215.0.24 - the download never finishes, the socket is closed, freshclam kee

Re: [clamav-users] freshclam update hung

2011-05-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/27/11 7:05 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/26/11 7:27 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: Two different servers, in two different data centers, trying to pull the latest safebrowsing list, hung, cpu 100% Having a similar problem with the Canadian pool at IP: 24.215.0.24 - the download never

Re: [clamav-users] freshclam update hung

2011-05-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/27/11 7:36 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 5/27/11 10:26 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/27/11 7:05 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/26/11 7:27 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: Two different servers, in two different data centers, trying to pull the latest safebrowsing list, hung, cpu 100

Re: [clamav-users] freshclam update hung

2011-05-27 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/27/11 8:11 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 5/27/11 11:07 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: Obviously, but a second verification is helpful whereas rants from a sample of one? Well, not so much. my email was clear, concise, and very the problem easily duplicated. you really have a thin skin

Re: [clamav-users] improving ClamAV private mirroring?

2011-07-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 7/14/11 9:57 AM, James Ralston wrote: On 2011-07-11 at 13:40-04 Christopher X Candreva wrote: I have one machine run freshclam, and use rsync to update all my other servers with the databases. The clamav user has to have ssl keys set up so it can ssh to the other servers without a password

Re: [clamav-users] daily.cvd update issue.

2011-07-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
> > > > I suggest that you rely on our twitter feed for real time info > (twitter.com/clamav) > In my opinion, if twitter is a requirement for using ClamAV then this project is doomed. I don't see our 'business' endorsing our NOC playing with twitter as part of the job. I hope they don't re

Re: [clamav-users] Third Party web interface

2011-07-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 7/25/11 9:35 AM, Luca Gibelli wrote: Hello, The service is still in beta, you are welcome to contact Luca Gibelli if you intend to join the beta program. We especially welcome those who already distribute their own unofficial signatures to join. A list of databases distributed by the ne

Re: [clamav-users] Phishing URLs: South African Banks

2011-08-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 8/2/11 6:35 AM, Alain Zidouemba wrote: Alex, Your (or any) submissions are not being ignored. We have have just been facing a large volume of submissions and prioritization sometimes makes it that it takes us longer than we'd want to to get to some submission. I will be contacting you shortl

Re: [clamav-users] Clarification of report needed

2011-09-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/3/11 1:25 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: No. As I reported yesterday, that returns ls: cannot access /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kmail/imap/.1687036093.directory/.INBOX.directory/Newsletters: No such file or directory Anne, Typical troubl

Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue

2011-09-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/9/11 4:25 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote: So what's the problem? I guess I'd like to see what your Checkpoint firewall rules in your DC look like and read your presentation to your security team justifying connecting your system to unknown systems using a distribution method most better known for

Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue

2011-09-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/9/11 3:07 PM, Nathan Gibbs wrote: Not everyone on this list works in your kind of shop. Our shop has a host whose main purpose in life is to torrent Debian ISO's. All the other person is asking, is why can't we have the capability to use torrents? This solution could take load off the glo

Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue

2011-09-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/13/11 3:15 PM, Bryan Burke wrote: At least concerning this issue, is there anything more to be done? Eliminate some unknowns - like maybe your DNS doesn't like big packets. Add this *temporarily* to your host table: 88.198.67.125 db.us.big.clamav.net And try again - and try with yo

Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue

2011-09-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/13/11 7:53 PM, Noel Jones wrote: On 9/13/2011 9:03 PM, Bryan Burke wrote: My logs show successful update sources in the last line, but not when there is no update. Ok, well I did check the output of the grep before posting the number of lines on this list, and all log entries mentioning

Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue

2011-09-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/13/11 8:05 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: I've just sent the URL to validator.wc3.org and got the same problem with this message: My fat fingers intended to type http://validator.wc.org and not what they did type. dp ___ Help us bu

Re: [clamav-users] Yet Another US Mirror Issue

2011-09-13 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 9/13/11 8:31 PM, Al Varnell wrote: Sounds like the server will be pulled, so you may not care, but since I went through the effort. Made changes to the hosts file. Ran dig $ db.us.clamav.net Does your dig use the host table? Mine does not. Same with nslookup. I can't imagine why they w

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