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2007-09-24 Thread Jim . Melin
Good Morning folks. I have an automated scan system set up, and today I got a strange error. *** stack smashing detected ***: clamscan terminated First time I've ever seen this error. So I ran the scan manually. This particular scan was going against root, so I ran it manually. after a while

Re: [Clamav-users] Scanning hardware devices fails

2007-09-24 Thread Jim . Melin
I'll do that tomorrow. But yes I agree it shouldn't trigger that error, which was the other reason I posted it. "Török Edvin" <[E

[Clamav-users] I need to refute a 'security expert'

2007-11-16 Thread Jim . Melin
Hello all. We've had some consultant make the spurious claim that Clam AV only scans for 'windows viruses' and is really only useful for 'scanning email'. Despite the fact that I know this to be patently false, is there documentation out there I can slap him with that clearly indicates that the

Re: [Clamav-users] I need to refute a 'security expert'

2007-11-16 Thread Jim . Melin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/16/2007 02:52:34 PM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all. > > > > We've had some consultant make the spurious claim that Clam AV > only scans for 'windows viruses' and is really only useful for > 'scanning email'. > > Despite the fact that I know this to be pat

Re: [Clamav-users] I need to refute a 'security expert'

2007-11-20 Thread Jim . Melin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/20/2007 06:29:50 AM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] in message 'Re: [Clamav-users] I need to > refute a 'security expert'' wrote: > > > > > > I wouldn't even be in this situation, except that Symantec AV for > Linux is a little too fussy about kernel levels and the like to pas

Re: [Clamav-users] What's this? I can't believe it!

2008-01-22 Thread Jim . Melin
Brandon Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/20/2008 09:53:39 PM: > That still seems a bit "over-the-top". Sure, better safe than sorry, but > I wouldn't just blindly delete any exe that I come into contact with No, perhaps not. But would you do a wholesale eradication of and/all suspicious fil

[Clamav-users] Virus Detection Messages - False positive or real?

2008-03-18 Thread Jim . Melin
On a test server after a very long period of not detecting anything CLAM AV started reporting that it was seeing: /clamscan/servers/mudlake/opt/Dave/nmap-4.03.tgz: Trojan.Spy-27244 FOUND /clamscan/servers/mudlake/opt/Dave/nmap-4.03/mswin32/winpcap/Packet.dll: Trojan.Spy-27244 FOUND /clamscan/ser

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Detection Messages - False positive or real?

2008-03-18 Thread Jim . Melin
Thanks for the link to virustotal. That is only showing clam AV and a product called VBA as showing positive. I suspect both 2744 and 27239 are false positives given what Virus Total is saying. According to the daily virusDB (6278 and 6275 respectively) from 3/17 these were added yesterday. In

Re: [Clamav-users] Problems connecting to freshclam servers

2008-03-26 Thread Jim . Melin
Is your clam AV version up to date? I sometimes see similar messages when I"m more than one levelset behind and the mirrors have changed. What does clamscan -V and freshclam -V reveal?

Re: [Clamav-users] Problems connecting to freshclam servers

2008-03-26 Thread Jim . Melin
Nope. You're current. So that isn't the issue. Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Clamav-users] Abhijit C sent you a special gift

2008-03-27 Thread Jim . Melin
I'll wager this person's PC is hijacked and that messag went out to EVERYONE he/she has ever sent an e-mail to. Stephen Gran <[EMA

Re: [Clamav-users] testvirus detected but not filtered

2008-05-21 Thread Jim . Melin
Eggert, You should update your clam AV version soon after a release, regardless or you run the risk it not protecting you. There are numerous reasons why this is so. I usually give a release a couple weeks to 'bake out', so to speak, so that any issues that might not have been exposed in releas

[Clamav-users] False positive for W32.Virut.Gen.D-146

2008-06-06 Thread Jim . Melin
Mostly this is an FYI/Heads up for people. This is ocurring exclusively against: /usr/lib/mono/gac/Novell.Directory.Ldap/2.0.0.0__0738eb9f132ed756/Novell.Directory.Ldap.dll on all the servers I have running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. I uploaded the file to Virusttotal, which is running C

Re: [Clamav-users] False positive for W32.Virut.Gen.D-146

2008-06-06 Thread Jim . Melin
Just wondering if there's any SLES 10 Folks out there on Clam 0.93 with daily.cld at level 7386 is seeing this against Novell.Directory.Ldap.dll in the directory specified in my email below. I'm not seeing any mentiones of this signature out on google, and i've mailed the virus signature maintai

Re: [Clamav-users] please remove

2009-02-20 Thread Jim . Melin
And some people's email systems, which are moronically locked down by management and admins do NOT let you do anything other than top post. Even though they can. So sometimes it's not anyone's fault.

[Clamav-users] Greetings - I'm having a puzzling issue with clamscan

2005-01-20 Thread Jim . Melin
I've been weighing the differences of clamscan vs clamdscan via clamd... and I have encountered something that is eluding me as to what the cause was When I invoke clamscan, I get an error that it cannot find the daily.cvd file. That points to a configuration problem, but the path it tried to

Re: [Clamav-users] Greetings - I'm having a puzzling issue with clamscan

2005-01-20 Thread Jim . Melin
This may be unique to clamscan on linux on z/series. I cannot provide the access, as this is all internal system stuff, but I'm willing to grab any files that might shed light on things. Essentially be the gopher.

[Clamav-users] Using Clam AV - Perhaps I am not understanding product intent

2005-01-26 Thread Jim . Melin
Seems to me like Clam AV has a lot of mail filtering capabilities, which is goodness. I am, however wanting it for real time file system protection. I presume it can do this, but I am unsure how to make it do so. To give you an idea of the environment: SLES8 SP3 (2.4 kernel) is the flavour of Lin

Re: [Clamav-users] Using Clam AV - Perhaps I am not understanding product intent

2005-01-26 Thread Jim . Melin
I did read 4.1.1 - It specifically states that "...It is not required to run clamd - furthermore, you shouldn't run Dazuko on production systems." So I stopped there. Since I require this on a production system. I was hoping there was another option other than the Dazuko module. I have qualms about

Re: [Clamav-users] Using Clam AV - Perhaps I am not understanding product intent

2005-01-26 Thread Jim . Melin
I tried... but again I'm dealing with a virtualized environment and penguin 1 cant see if penguin 2 is using 50% of the CPU. Thats all handled by the VM hipervisor. Never had enough individual system load to make nice show me any difference. Figured nice was a long shot at best but I do not know

[Clamav-users] Freshclam and Cron

2005-02-22 Thread Jim . Melin
Freshclam via cron What sort of update intervals are people using, and can someone show me a working crontab entry? I've tried calling freshclam like this via a crontab entry 06 0 * * * /usr/local/bin/freshclam BUt it doesn't seem to work. Which means I'm probably missing somethign obvious.

[Clamav-users] Clam AV on windows with the cygwin environment installed

2005-08-01 Thread Jim . Melin
Is this possible? Are there any pitfalls in doing this? ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

[Clamav-users] Clam antivirus - File/dir exclude lists - can it be done using a file?

2005-12-22 Thread Jim . Melin
IS there a way to specify that clamscan read out of a file for the exclude lists I see in the manpage for clamscan there is: --exclude=PATT, --exclude-dir=PATT The reason I am asking is this: I am using an intel based linux server on a gigabit network to access via NFS, the individual mountpo