[Clamav-users] Clamav may crash when processing Certain RAR files.....

2004-03-22 Thread Jim
Has anyone seen the below article, is it really a problem and do users of clamav need to move to .68 or better to be protected? http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Mar/1009502.html Jim --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM

[Clamav-users] Plexus/Explet

2004-06-04 Thread Jim
What does clamav refer to Plexus or Explet as ? The symantec name is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does clamav catch this virus? Jim --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mob

[Clamav-users] mydoom.m zipped version getting through clamav

2004-07-27 Thread Jim
as a deb? Jim --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&

[Clamav-users] clamd cannot connect to Unix socket

2004-08-09 Thread Jim
that even though these messages are still being printed clam is still working and stopping viruses Jim --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks

[Clamav-users] Upgrade clamav on Debian and now service creates error when starting

2004-09-09 Thread Jim
n now installed on the Debian system is 0.75.1-4 Jim --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsor

[Clamav-users] freshclam not updating, on Debian Linux

2005-01-28 Thread Jim
f-level: 4, builder: trog) WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately! WARNING: Current functionality level = 3, required = 4 Jim ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

[Clamav-users] Freshclam cfgfile.c out of sync

2003-10-16 Thread jim
C) 2002 Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 49d48 < {"ScanRAR", OPT_NOARG}, 55d53 < {"TCPAddr", OPT_STR}, --- Jim C. | Carroll-Net, Inc. 201-488-4092| www.carroll.com | Application Service Provider --

[Clamav-users] ClamAV ver 20031106 + FreeBSD exiting on signal 4

2003-11-07 Thread jim
fCheck 600 StreamSaveToDisk TCPAddr 127.0.0.1 User clamav Any pointers, work arounds or advice would be greatly appreciated. --- Jim C. | Carroll-Net, Inc. 201-488-4092| www.carroll.com | Application Service Provider --- This SF

[Clamav-users] In clamav_milter, hit max-children limit

2003-11-20 Thread jim
max_children to such a degree? Thanks --- Jim C. | Carroll-Net, Inc. 201-488-4092| www.carroll.com | Application Service Provider --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be mor

[Clamav-users] Trojan.Startpage-149 in swap file

2005-10-24 Thread Jim
? Here's the clamav output: /home/jim/My Computer/Storage Device (hda5)/boot/linux-swap.swp: Trojan.Startpage-149 FOUND ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [clamav-users] OpenDNS

2013-11-07 Thread Jim Alles
ave fun barking up trees. (there are lots of them! ;) Peace, Jim A. On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:00 AM, wrote: > Send clamav-users mailing list submissions to > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lis

Re: [clamav-users] clamav-milter making strange files in my root

2013-12-09 Thread Jim Preston
s wrote: [snip] Are you running clamav-milter as root? If so, that might be why it is writing in the root directory. I have not personally seen that issue of writing files to root directory. Thanks, Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: htt

Re: [clamav-users] I wont this Newletter

2013-12-18 Thread Jim Preston
signed up for. The instructions for unsubscribing are located in the header -- Jim Preston ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [clamav-users] Debian packaging

2014-02-11 Thread Jim Popovitch
n see that 0.98.1 is already in Testing and UnStable here: http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav.html On that page, you can view "todo" at the top middle to see the current outstanding build/packaging issues. hth, -Jim P. ___ Help us buil

Re: [clamav-users] Introducing OpenSSL as a dependency to ClamAV

2014-02-26 Thread Jim Rimedio
Jim Rimedio died on Feb. 25, 2014 so no longer will be participating. His wife On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: > On 2/26/14, 12:32 PM, Shawn Webb wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Dennis Peterson > >wrote: >> >> On 2/26/14, 8:08

Re: [clamav-users] Clam in a very low memory environment?

2014-03-09 Thread Jim Preston
nd not certain whether it was successful or not. -Al- Not knowing your situation but.have to ask if there are any other services you can turn off to conserve memory? And any possible chance of smaller foot print daemons of any essential services? -- Jim P

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAv updates not being published properly?

2014-05-28 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Randal, Phil wrote: > Oops, left off the latest version of patterns - 19041, allegedly, yet we're > stuck on 19037. Same here. DNS says 19037 is the latest: ~$ dig +short txt current.cvd.clamav.net "0.98.3:55:19037:1401269340:1:63:41

Re: [clamav-users] [Fwd: [sanesecurity] Hacking Team detection]

2015-08-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
sanesecurity/hackingteam.hsb /tmp/hackingteam.hsb clamscan --database=/tmp/hackingteam.hsb -ri / The above will scan your complete filesystem, including mounted partitions. -Jim P. ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clam

Re: [clamav-users] [Fwd: [sanesecurity] Hacking Team detection]

2015-08-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 07 August 2015 12:34:54 Jim Popovitch wrote: > >> clamscan --database=/tmp/hackingteam.hsb -ri / > > Chuckle, and will, on this system, take a loooggg time. :) :-) Here's an update to what

[clamav-users] Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [sanesecurity] ...

2015-08-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
Can someone set no-mail or unsubscribe this guy: "pupussec...@wanadoo.fr" . It is quite annoying to get his spam everytime I post to ClamAV. Thanks! -Jim P. 2015-08-07 12:36 GMT-04:00 Jean philippe Catteau <mailto:no-re...@spamenmoins.com"; target="_blank&qu

Re: [clamav-users] How do I tell if MacroDoubleExtension-zippwd is for real

2016-02-16 Thread Burton, Jim
Getting this too. On jar files from a Oracle Weblogic server. I suspect this is another false positive, along the lines of the "'Win.Trojan.Bancos-2115" problem last week. -Original Message- From: clamav-users [mailto:clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf Of Ted Gilchrist Sen

[clamav-users] GPG signature problem with clamav-0.99.2.tar.gz

2017-06-30 Thread Jim Michaud
I just downloaded clamav-0.99.2.tar.gz from https://www.clamav.net/downloads and tried to check the signature using the "Talos PGP Public Key" on the same page. It looks like it was signed with a different public key. $ gpg --import ../Talos-PGP-Public-Key gpg: key 0B3BB3A7: public key "vuln...@

Re: [Clamav-users] I need your help!!!!!Please

2009-06-15 Thread Jim Preston
fice Training.ppt in Google, you can view as HTML Your best solution would be to download the sources and build ClamAV on the the SCO server. Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] question about Clamav anti virus for old mac OS 9.2

2009-06-23 Thread Jim Preston
are not infected. You could create a test document and send it to your designer to ensure it is not infected. Write protecting the dot will prevent existing documents from infecting the templates again. Thanks, Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] Error libclamav.so.6

2009-06-28 Thread Jim Preston
/src # clamd clamd: error while loading shared libraries: libclamav.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Would you advise me why the libclamav.so.6 unable to be accessed? Thank you very much for your help wong Did you check that libclamav.so.6 exists? Jim

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav-Milter crashes continously

2009-12-18 Thread Jim Preston
ter): to error state As you can see no posting for it crashing. When it is in its failed state in response to status I get "clamav-milter dead but subsys locked" mail is rejected until the milter is restarted. Thanks, Jim ___ Help

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav-Milter crashes continously

2009-12-18 Thread Jim Preston
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Török Edwin wrote: On 2009-12-18 21:14, Jim Preston wrote: On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On 2009-12-18 19:23, jimli...@commspeed.net wrote: Hi All, I have upgraded to the current Clamav 0.95.3 and now my clamav- milter crashes all the

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav-Milter crashes continously

2009-12-18 Thread Jim Preston
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Török Edwin wrote: On 2009-12-18 21:14, Jim Preston wrote: On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On 2009-12-18 19:23, jimli...@commspeed.net wrote: Hi All, I have upgraded to the current Clamav 0.95.3 and now my clamav- milter crashes all the

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav-Milter crashes continously

2009-12-18 Thread Jim Preston
Török Edwin wrote: On 2009-12-18 21:14, Jim Preston wrote: On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Török Edwin wrote: On 2009-12-18 19:23, jimli...@commspeed.net wrote: Hi All, I have upgraded to the current Clamav 0.95.3 and now my clamav-milter crashes all the time. Not sure what

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav-Milter crashes continously

2009-12-19 Thread Jim Preston
Török Edwin wrote: On 2009-12-19 00:56, Jim Preston wrote: Could freshclam be causing it to crash? I have a cron job set to run freshclam at 10 minutes after each hour. In looking at the logs again I just noticed that the crash all occur around 10 after the hour. Dec 18 13:10:57 JimFedora

Re: [Clamav-users] lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR

2009-12-23 Thread Jim Preston
ction system. With tweaking you can get what you need working in the Enforcing mode but takes a lot of effort sometimes. Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav-Milter crashes continously

2009-12-23 Thread Jim Preston
On Dec 19, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Jim Preston wrote: Török Edwin wrote: On 2009-12-19 00:56, Jim Preston wrote: Could I have a bad setting in the freshclam.conf? Why should the milter be affected by freshclam? Its only purpose is to interface between your MTA and clamd. As long as clamd is

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav-Milter crashes continously

2009-12-23 Thread Jim Preston
John W. Baxter wrote: On 12/23/09 9:57 AM, "Jim Preston" wrote: On Dec 19, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Jim Preston wrote: Török Edwin wrote: On 2009-12-19 00:56, Jim Preston wrote: Could I have a bad setting in the freshclam.conf? Why should the

Re: [Clamav-users] Problem downloading 0.95.3 from website

2009-12-29 Thread Jim Preston
indow to do the download, try this link http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/clamav/clamav/0.95.3/clamav-0.95.3.tar.gz Thanks, Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] FW: Problem downloading 0.95.3 from website

2009-12-30 Thread Jim Preston
rbids) top posting (placing your reply at the the top of the message) What happens if you try to download to a different computer? The issue seems to be computer specific and testing the download on another computer will help confirm this. T

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd hanging on startup

2010-01-26 Thread Jim Preston
then he may get away with 256MB. Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] TargetType

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Preston
d can find no specifics. Attached document? I did not see an attachment. Can you send a link? Thanks, Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] TargetType

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Preston
. This was in response to Alain Zidouemba's reply to Tom Shaw. If that information you cited is the same that Alain referred to then yes. I was just looking to follow-up on the posted information to increase my knowledge. Thanks, Jim ___ He

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting "***UNCHECKED***" on some emails I send out.

2010-02-24 Thread Jim Preston
I have to disagree with you completely on this issue Steve. I only use ClamAV on my mail server and NOT to protect myself but to ensure that I am not sending malware to unsuspecting Windows users. Although I do agree that tagging messages as scanned and safe is misleading. If tagged messages

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting "***UNCHECKED***" on some emails I send out.

2010-02-24 Thread Jim Preston
No Dennis, you would just know they are coming from the spammer and not zombies. Then again, there would be far fewer zombies if people took personal responsibility for their computers On Feb 24, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 2/24/10 6:52 AM, Steven Stern wrote: On 02/24/2010

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting "***UNCHECKED***" on some emails I send out.

2010-02-24 Thread Jim Preston
feels that trusting an email that states it is safe is an alternative to scanning by the receiver. Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting "***UNCHECKED***" on some emails I send out.

2010-03-01 Thread Jim Preston
And I have the ability to send out using my own server. I do not send a lot out via my own server as it is not running on a registered domain so . many mail servers complain that it does not have reverse DNS etc Jim ___ Help us build a com

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting "***UNCHECKED***" on some emails I send out.

2010-03-01 Thread Jim Preston
hat ALL inbound, end user mail should be scanned. Redundancy is a very good thing. I like to have both onsite backups for quick access and "redundant" off-site backups for disaster recovery purposes :) Jim ___ Help us build a com

Re: [Clamav-users] Scanning outbound - pointless?

2010-03-01 Thread Jim Preston
s mail. If you you were briefly involved in a lawsuit for non-delivery / non-notification of email, I believe you were involved in a frivolous lawsuit and I would have advocated canceling your account! -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Jim ___ Help

Re: [Clamav-users] Amazon.com order confirmation tripped Phishing.Heuristics.Email.SpoofedDomain

2010-03-09 Thread Jim Preston
Hi, You'll also see the problem with orders from Sears and a few other retailers. I had to disable PhishingScanURLs here starting in early December due to all the false positives. Regards, Rick Hi Rick, Just a coursoity, did you report the PhishinScanURL problem? Thanks

Re: [Clamav-users] Out of Memory

2010-03-11 Thread Jim Preston
logs say was happening to the system around the time of the OOMs? Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav & Samba

2010-03-11 Thread Jim Preston
see if that helps and tighten the permissions once you have worked it all out. I run samba and clamav but have not implemented the vscan-clamav option. I need to upgrade / rebuild the system so maybe I will add that as and option. Jim ___ Help us b

Re: [Clamav-users] quick question on freshclam

2010-03-11 Thread Jim Preston
s a day at some offset from the hour to minimize collision with other users (tends to timeout if done on the top of the hour) Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd memory usage

2010-04-13 Thread Jim Preston
at works out to be 91MB at idle. My mail server is ONLY used by myself so has very little load and spend more than 99% of the time idle. Jim Preston Computer Services ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd memory usage

2010-04-13 Thread Jim Preston
Jim Preston wrote: Chris wrote: I'll admit I'm not too smart when it comes to how much memory an app is supposed to use but it seems to me that since I installed .96 on my Mandriva 2010 system it's using an excessive amount. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd memory usage

2010-04-14 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 14, 2010, at 4:07 AM, Chris wrote: On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 19:56 -0700, Jim Preston wrote: Chris wrote: I'll admit I'm not too smart when it comes to how much memory an app is supposed to use but it seems to me that since I installed .96 on my Mandriva 2010 system it&

Re: [Clamav-users] Upgrading System for latest ClamAV version

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
pay since upgrading did not yield any significant improvements for that server. When we needed services that could not be provided securely by the RH9 server we built a new server to host those new services. This made for almost zero interruption Jim _

Re: [Clamav-users] Upgrading System for latest ClamAV version

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
, once you have gained the confidence that compiling works and is not hard to do (on current, up2date platforms) then going back to your older platform that is still doing well for all but a few applications and compiling those applications from source will not be so daunting a t

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 16, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: Em 16/04/2010 08:15, Giampaolo Tomassoni escreveu: Indeed, an EOL on the previous minor version is quite an hazard and may be regarded as a self-destructive behavior: it could easily became an End-Of-(product-)Line, meaning that people

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
ld still have failed in May when the unsupported signatures are released. They just forced the failure a little sooner... despite of all the warnings, the EOL signature was a bad move in my opinion. Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensi

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
om working. People may have assumed that this would have been the clamav behavior at EOL deadline, thereby underestimating the matter. The sysadmins could have done this by turning off freshclam.. and saved themselves from having to deal with the upgrade

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
. Regards. They certainly had the option, on April 14th, they could have turned off freshclam and run happily ever after. Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
n in the wild anymore. For half the day I've been forced to detect no virus's. Now I'm only detecting the ones known about up till yesterday. Unless you upgrade to supported software. This is the same as the commercial AV vendors, your subscription for Clamav 0.94.x has run out..

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
ervers. Nevertheless, a *lot* of people will abandon clamav in favor of some pay-per-clean solution (which may even not be a 3D System, after all). Was this the purpose? Giampaolo Then that is their choice and when it fails, they can bitch to the developers of that system an

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
ase go fix it. -- /Jason _______ Absolutely! Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
hing else then ClamAV... Then they are free to do so and get what they pay for.. Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
w unlicensed for who knows what reason. The traffic on this is ridiculous. You don't like it, buy something, but stop whining already. Amen! Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
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 out all it's mail Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 16, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Unfortunately, the net result will be that the management of the small companies running their crappy and old mailing systems will have to hardly face the fact their mailing box doesn't work anymore because a free component in it unrea

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 16, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Simon Hobson wrote: Jerry wrote: So, rather than update ClamAV and/or their OS, which in the majority of cases would involve no monetary expense, users will purchase new servers and flock en masse to Microsoft, spend thousands more on Microsoft Windows Server 20

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 16, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: It is not something to do know, but instead something that could have been done introducing 0.96... Giampaolo: There are lots of things that COULD be done, but it is not the philosophy of the ClamAV project. As I said, the devs

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 16, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: The sysadmins could have done this by turning off freshclam.. and saved themselves from having to deal with the upgrade. Who is the sysadmin of an unmanaged box? The person who setup it up or the manager that decided that a si

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 16, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Was this the purpose? Giampaolo Then that is their choice and when it fails, they can bitch to the developers of that system and switch to another vendor ... Apart the fact that open software is not yet-another-vendor. It is a c

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

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
U configured it to not send mail if Clamav was not working AND YOU are responsible for setting up and maintaining your systems. Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] WTF?? all clamav just up and stops??

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
t don't go shutting everything down and killing corporate email all together!! Retards... Off to find a replacement... Happy hunting! Your use of mailing lists is only match by your management of servers! Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensi

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 16, 2010, at 2:41 AM, Steve Basford wrote: Hi, Just for interest.. feedback on EOL... http://search.twitter.com/search?q=clamav Cheers, Steve Sanesecurity See what ya started Steve? :^) Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV

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

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 16, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Gary MacKay 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 ??? No one. Only very old installs, not all installs. So who made who god

Re: [Clamav-users] Upgrading System for latest ClamAV version

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 16, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Simon Hobson wrote: Hmm, getting somewhat off-topic here ... Jim Preston wrote: Except you do not need to move all your applications, users, and data. All you need to do is build an expensive server and have it host ONLY email. I already have a server that

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
disservice to people running a recent release of ClamAV. The traffic generated by a full CVD download, as opposed to an incremental update, cannot be sustained by our mirrors. Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net

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

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
just fine, or if not, it isn't clamav's fault. They shut down your clamd daemon... Not your server. Come on, Eric. Your defense is ridiculous... Giampaolo Why is it ridiculous? You could have configured you server to send the mail in case of ClamAV failure and yet you did

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

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
open relay mail systems would be the norm and not blacklisted. Alas, we do not live in a perfect world :^( So, if you feel that the "Mail must go through", configure your system to do so and stop whining that you failed to have your system configured to do what YOU wa

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
, YOU did. You failed to properly configure your email to handle a failure in clamd. Were there many others like you who also failed to configure their systems to handle a failure in clamd? Yes, but that again was their decision as it was yours. Jim, you keep adding apples and pears tog

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 16, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Instead, I preferred ClamAV. And I'm still helping the way I can: I'm reporting malware, and now I'm debating on the 0.96 case. And I'm really sad when I discover that a move could put in danger the reputability of the whole project.

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
l future updates will work with any previous version, etc. Because the open-source idea is all based on freedom. Not in the way you think it is. -- Freddie Cash Well said! Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http:/

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
nd others that chose not to update) decided that your server should fail. All that was done was a signature that your version can not read was sent out. You have configured your system to automatically update the signatures and this signature can not be used by

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 16, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: The ClamAV team have commanded old versions of its product to stop working. I would not describe what they did that way. Older versions of clamd were going to crash on signatures that newer versions would accept, and the devs have been p

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
oint, the point was not that they were acting as Norton or McAfee, but that those whose systems stopped sending mail AND are upset by it, did not properly configure their system. Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http:/

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

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
how that you could have planned for this when you configured your system. Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 16, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Obviously, you are choosing to be dense. The bottom line is that the particulars regarding this event were published. Whether or not you availed yourself of that notification is immaterial. There was not anything nefarious in the ClamAV tea

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
u who also failed to configure their systems to handle a failure in clamd? Yes, but that again was their decision as it was yours. Jim, you're still trying mudding me to stop what I'm saying. The fact that the team was aware of the implication of long signatures and the fact that

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
obscure malformatted hexstring error. Wasn't it better to simply let these system go the way they were used to? What's the difference from the clamav standpoint? None, and what you be doing next month when the new signatures came out and those same unpatched systems '

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
eceives the updates OK. In all development there comes a time when you have to break with compatibility in order to achieve the results you desire. The ClamAV team felt that this was the time. Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-16 Thread Jim Preston
I agree with you entirely. You're welcome to roll back to the 2010-4- 14 virus signatures before the less-than-0.95 kill switch was turned on, and your outdated ClamAV will continue to run just fine with these old signatures. This is feasible, but know needs some kind of human intervention

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
lling. It my opinion that people turn to name calling and such when they have run out of useful arguments and yet refuse to move on. Hope you have a great day, Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
ling a new version of gcc is not that big of a deal. Have a great day, Jim PS: No response to my earlier reply to you? ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
configure their systems to be RELIABLE in event of a software failure. Having failed to either are throwing temper tantrums like a child. And lastly, did not your parents tell you using such language is not polite? Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive Cl

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
rosoft updates have causes systems including servers to fail and crash, should you be petitioning to have Microsoft prosecuted under this law? Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
lists wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 13:14 -0700, Jim Preston wrote: lists wrote: Lots of interesting views. Yes, people should have updated. However, this act of maliciously killing critical servers to score a point is the kind of thing malware writers do. It is also illegal in the UK

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
Simon Hobson wrote: Jim Preston wrote: According to this reasoning, I know of website that consistently causes browsers to shut down. This website is a legitimate business site, Should this site be prosecuted under this law? In response to your example, that was a DOS attack and is illegal

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
Ralf Quint wrote: At 01:14 PM 4/17/2010, Jim Preston wrote: First, anyones system that stopped sending mail, it was not a malicious act just that their system can not handle the signature update that was sent out. Secondly, they all had both the chance to update before it happened OR

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
ause ClamAV to fail. And those that did not heed the warning were the only ones affected... Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
gs. - Dan. I whole heartedly agree Dan. However I have been slandered today being called arrogant and ignorant, so what do I know? Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Preston
Giampaolo, We are never going to agree so .. I have moved on. I sincerely hope your's and your colleagues systems are back to running and that they continue to do so for a long time. Best, Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-0.96rc1-19.1.i586.rpm;ThankYou

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Preston
un it from the command line with the force option. Jim ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] error in make

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Preston
do you have on this line? In the default clamd.conf (new one distributed with 0.96) it is: # Default: no which is not a problem. Check your clamd.conf and if you can't see what is wrong, paste the contents (or partial contents) and I will see if I can determine what it does not like.

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