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

Hi Julie, I don't think clamav existed when Mac OS 8(1997) & 9 (1999) where out and clamav can't really be compiled on Mac OS 8 or 9 since Mac didn't have gcc for the Mac OS at that time. Can someone at clamav correct me if I'm wrong on the first release of clamav. You can use install 10.4.11 al

[Clamav-users] All quiet on the virus front?

Hello, Ever since about 10-Nov-2009 1810UTC I haven't gotten any virus hits on my mail server and I'm checking if anyone seen the same thing. Before that time, I used to get about 1000 virus hits per day so are the virus writers/spammers gone away or this is the quiet before the storm? I stil

Re: [Clamav-users] SubmitDetectionStats Error

Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-j1lLga8n22sDa9MUXOxj" I've seen this in the last three freshclam runs: ERROR: SubmitDetectionStats: Remote server reported temporary failure: under maintenance Curious as to whether anyone e

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav 0.95.3 in qmail

Hi, I use qmail scanner with the st patch that allows to configure quarantine and delete spam messages at specified settings with my qmail installation. Qmail scanner supports clamav and other anti-virus scanners: qmail scanner: http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/ qmail scanner st patch: ht

[Clamav-users] Outdated warning even though it is up to date.

I noticed this morning that my systems all report that my clamav is outdate even though it running the current version 0.96.3. Here is the freshclam message: Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav Max retries == 5 ClamAV update process started at Mon Sep 20 11:28:17 2010 Using IPv6 aware code Q

[Clamav-users] clamd dying.

Hello, Last night my clamd died on my server here what my logs say: Tue Mar 13 20:48:07 2007 -> SelfCheck: Database status OK. Tue Mar 13 20:58:10 2007 -> SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload. Tue Mar 13 20:58:10 2007 -> Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav Tue Mar 13 20:

[Clamav-users] Interesting message in Fedora Core 6 running clamav-0.90.3.

Hello, I was doing a test clamscan using clamav-0.90.3 on a machine running Fedora Core 6 with the kernel 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 and I got this message: LibClamAV Warning: Bad compression in flate stream I'm running this other kernel versions and didn't see this message running clamscan. Regards,

[Clamav-users] Quiet period for viruses?

Hi, Maybe it just me but I noticed that the clamav definitions are still at 4540 dated 14 October 2007 0143 UTC or has the virus writers has called a truce. Regards, Frank ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net ht

Re: [Clamav-users] help, can't compile clamav-0.92 ("gcc bug")

Hi, I have the same thing happening a my MacBookPro. I get this message also: checking for gcc bug PR28045... configure: error: your compiler has gcc PR28045 bug, use a different compiler, see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28045 I'm using xcode_2.4.1_8m and I'm downloading xcode_3.

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav gcc dependendencies ...

Hello, I'm on a MacBookPro running 10.4.11 with xcode 2.5 and I tried your suggestion "export CC=gcc-3.4" and I got this error: checking for gcc... gcc-3.4 checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more detai

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav gcc dependendencies ...

Hi, I just configure with CFLAGS="-O0" and did make and make install and it worked on my Mac running 10.4.11! However we in the Apple user community are at the mercy of Apple as to when Apple will update gcc to 4.1.1 or later. I had pre-release version of gcc-4.2.1 from Apple which didn't wor

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav0.92 install problem

Hello Joey, Try to make sure the clamd daemon is not running. Also if your are running sockets that any clamd file in tmp are removed. Regards, Frank >Installing new version of clamav over clamav0.91.2 when i get to the >make install step i get this error message: > >/usr/bin/install: cannot r

[Clamav-users] Problems compiling clamav 0.93 on a Macintosh 10.4.11.

Hi, I just download clamav 0.93 and attempted to compiled this on my Apple Macintosh 10.4.11 on a Apple MacBook Pro Core2 Duo. Here is my error message I got: Extracting /Applications/Utilities/clamav/clamav-0.93/libclamav/lzma/.libs/liblzma.a (cd .libs/libclamav.lax/liblzma.a && ar x /Applicat

Re: [Clamav-users] Problems compiling clamav 0.93 on a Macintosh 10.4.11.

Thank you Edwin! That worked. Frank >fchan wrote: >> Hi, >> I just download clamav 0.93 and attempted to compiled this on my >> Apple Macintosh 10.4.11 on a Apple MacBook Pro Core2 Duo. >> Here is my error message I got: >> >> Extracting >>

Re: [Clamav-users] US-CERT alert regarding ClamAV

If you have problems compiling clamav-0.92 and newer is because of gcc bug PR28045 and below is the line from my previous configure error: checking for gcc bug PR28045... configure: error: your compiler has gcc PR28045 bug, use a different compiler, see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.c

Re: [Clamav-users] successfull upgrade from 0.92 to 0.93

Hi, I updated from clamav-0.92.1 to 0.93 on RedHat Linux ES 5, Linux 2.4 and Macintosh OS 10.4.11. I had need to tweak the clamd.conf file because of obsolete ArchiveFileSize, ArchiveMaxFiles, etc. and for the Macintosh 10.4.11 I need to remove the old clamav/lib file before it will compile

Re: [Clamav-users] List Archives?

Hi, Here is a mail-archive.com which archive clamav-user list: http://www.mail-archive.com/clamav-users@lists.clamav.net/ One the bottom of the support page there are others: http://www.clamav.org/support/ml Regards, Frank >Second question about RPM locations has been answered, thanks. > ht

Re: [Clamav-users] Frequency of virus attacks

Well, it appears that your lucky that you haven't been "discovered" by spammers and botnets so they don't spam you with viruses and spam. How about how many plain spam messages you get? The more "popular" you are the more spam and viruses you will get. I get an average of 150 messages with an

Re: [Clamav-users] -bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

Hi Don, The configure command is for building & compiling from source (raw code) so that's why you didn't see the configure command when you installed from RPM. RPM's are pre-compiled binary packages that will install or update from the rpm file to your system without configure. To verify your i

[Clamav-users] Date in the past when updating via freshclam.

Hi, On several of my systems to I got this message when updating via freshclam: Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav Max retries == 3 ClamAV update process started at Mon Jul 28 15:47:20 2008 Querying current.cvd.clamav.net TTL: 819 WARNING: DNS record is older than 3 hours. WARNING: Invalid DNS

[Clamav-users] Large increase in mail viruses?

Hi, I don't know if your seeing this also but since Monday July 28, 2008 I seen double and more in viruses caught by clamav in my mail server. My daily average has been about 100 viruses for our mail server for the last 8 months but since Monday July 28, 2008 my daily average has increased fro

Re: [Clamav-users] Just checking

Hi Ken, Yes, is has been quiet on this list since August 1, 2008. Must be nothing to say on the list now. Regards, Frank >Just checking out this new mail server I want to make sure this is getting >posted. Haven't seen any traffic for last couple days. > >Thanks, > >Ken >

[Clamav-users] No viruses detected since 1711GMT August 29,2008?

Hello, Maybe it is just my mail server, but I noticed that I haven't detected any virus infected email message since 1711 GMT August 29, 2008 so I'm checking if any seen this also. Before this time I got at least 10 virus infected messages per hour so this sudden "quiet" period is a little stra

Re: [Clamav-users] No viruses detected since 1711GMT August 29, 2008?

storm. Again thank you for the suggestion, Frank >fchan wrote: >> Hello, >> Maybe it is just my mail server, but I noticed that I haven't >> detected any virus infected email message since 1711 GMT August 29, >> 2008 > > >Send yourself a test file. The

Re: [Clamav-users] bzip2 1.0.5 and clamav 0.94

here: - configure thinks bzip2 is bugged, but in fact it cannot link (I opened bb #1158) - seems like the symbol names are not what configure expects (it should be either bzDecompress or BZ2_bzDecompress' /tmp/ccEYOTll.o(.text+0x61):/home/fchan/clamav-0.94/conftest.c:123: undefined referen

Re: [Clamav-users] bzip2 1.0.5 for CentOS

Actually I sent them a service ticket about updating bzip2 to version 1.0.5. Below is what I got recently from RedHat support: --- | Case Information | --- Case Title : bzip2 should be updated to version 1.0.5 Case

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd does not work

Check if /tmp/clamd.socket is there. If so remove it before you start clamd which can hinder clamd from starting. I hope this helps. Frank FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-patched-p8 ClamAV 0.94 from ports Clamd does not work. When starting, i get this in logs: However, clamd is not running and

Re: [Clamav-users] bzip2 1.0.5 and clamav 0.94

I have RedHat ES 5.1 and I have support with RedHat so I have logged a trouble ticket for this issue and this is their latest reply: 16-SEP-2008 02:03:47Shailendra Suhas Bandodkar Greetings, Thanks for the update. I consulted the security response team. They say that they have reviewed t

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus not detected on Linux/MacOSX

I read your links and I understand possible DoS and other issues but to repeat Alexandre's idea, why is there no error message for file that are too large to notify the admin so they can adjust clamd.conf or other action. Right now this infected file passes through like if it was not infected w

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus not detected on Linux/MacOSX

was too large passed through clamav without being scanned would be nice so one can take appropriate action. That is my opinion. Frank >On 9/19/08, Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Alexandre Biancalana wrote: >> > On 9/19/08, Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus not detected on Linux/MacOSX

ank >On 9/22/08, Eric Rostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Quoting fchan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> > Remember not everyone that uses clamav is not an expert so for >> >> >> They don't have to be an expert, they just h

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus not detected on Linux/MacOSX

These are great suggestions for clamscan. I think mine message was geared towards clamdscan which I use to scan mail messages. I worry about people sending large files and clamdscan doesn't scan them so I scan them manually and adjust clamscan accordingly. Also I need to know what max-filesiz

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamXav will not open

Please this support forum for ClamXav: http://www.markallan.co.uk/BB/ I use clamXav for awhile now and I never saw this error before. My guess you no Developer tools on your system which can give you this type error since clamXav needs this to compile clamav. Developer Tools with Xcode which c

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav upgrade

Hi, Here is good repository for clamav rpm which I got from clamav.net: http://packages.sw.be/clamav/ This is source page at clamav.net: http://www.clamav.net/download/packages/packages-linux Regards, Frank >Hi, > >I want to upgrade my clamav installation on FC6. Please tell me if there are >any

[Clamav-users] Missing daily 8727 & 8728

Nothing serious but I noticed that daily 8727 & 8728 are missing from the virus db list. http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-virusdb.en.html Any idea what happened? Frank ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net htt

Re: [Clamav-users] Best Practice Webinar

Thank you for those who have signed up but missed it. >Folks, > >Edwin's Webinar given last week on the topic of best practice and common >pitfalls in ClamAV is now >available for download from >http://www.sourcefire.com/resources/CAV-webcast-access. > >The presentation covers common pitfalls in t

Re: [Clamav-users] WARNING: DNS record is older than 3 hours. (freshclam.log)

Hi aCaB, I still get this today Wednesday February 11, 2009. I did this earlier here is what I got from freshclam -v: Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav Max retries == 5 ClamAV update process started at Wed Feb 11 13:44:39 2009 Using IPv6 aware code Querying current.cvd.clamav.net TTL: 900 WA

Re: [Clamav-users] Injury

Hi Nigel, Get well soon. By the way that is why American football players wear those pads and protectors for American Tackle Football. I played in my high school football team and it is not fun having several 100KG people sitting on top of you feeling like squashed bug. That where protection hel

[Clamav-users] All quiet on the virus front?

I'm checking that the last virus definition update was on Friday March 6, 2009 at 0500 version 9080. Also I noticed that my mail server hasn't received and virus/malware for the last 12 hours. Are the virus/malware writers taking a break or a calm before the next big storm? Frank _

[Clamav-users] Functionality level message with virus definition update version 9081.

I was doing a freshclam -v and got the current version 9081 of the virus definitions but I got this: freshclam -v Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav Max retries == 5 ClamAV update process started at Mon Mar 9 11:30:47 2009 Using IPv6 aware code Querying current.cvd.clamav.net TTL: 885 Softwa

[Clamav-users] Functionality level message gone. Thank you!

I did an freshclam -v and got version 9082 and the Functionality level message is gone. Thank you clamav team! ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml

Re: [Clamav-users] Functionality level message with virus definition update version 9081.

Thank you Nigel. I hope your arm is much better now. I think any urgent news should be posted via Twitter or similar ways and emailed as an backup method of communicating to the clamav users. Frank Dennis Peterson wrote: Luca Gibelli wrote: ÊÊ You can safely ignore this temporary warning

[Clamav-users] Strange message from LibClamAV when running clamscan.

I got this message after updating from 0.94.2 to 0.95. [fc...@s3 fchan]# freshclam -v Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav Max retries == 5 ClamAV update process started at Tue Mar 24 11:37:35 2009 Using IPv6 aware code Querying current.cvd.clamav.net TTL: 884 Software version from DNS: 0.95

Re: [Clamav-users] Strange message from LibClamAV when running clamscan.

This is what I get for command line date +%s: [fc...@s3 fchan]# date +%s 1237925239 Thank you, Frank >On 2009-03-24 20:55, fchan wrote: >> I got this message after updating from 0.94.2 to 0.95. >> >> [fc...@s3 fchan]# freshclam -v >> Current working dir is /var

Re: [Clamav-users] Strange message from LibClamAV when running clamscan.

Thank you Edwin for helping with this. I opened Bug 1498. Frank On 2009-03-24 22:09, fchan wrote: This is what I get for command line date +%s: [fc...@s3 fchan]# date +%s 1237925239 Thank you, Frank ÊÊ That is correct, please open a bugreport. --Edwin

Re: [Clamav-users] WARNING: Can't get information about user qscand .

Hi, Can you send us the log messages of this error and the configuration of your system. We can't help you with more information. From the subject of having "qscand" so it appears that you have qmailscanner running and that is what I'm running too. Again you need to send us the log messages for

[Clamav-users] Interesting issue with freshclam.

I installed clamav 0.95 on a RHEL 5.1 running linux 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen and I was doing freshclam -v and noticed there is missing information: [fc...@s1 fchan]# freshclam -v ClamAV update process started at Wed Mar 25 15:21:15 2009 main.cld is up to date (version: 50, sigs: 500667, f-level

Re: [Clamav-users] Interesting issue with freshclam.

Sorry, I didn't want to install this on a production server, which first showed this problem, but the other two servers I installed clamav-0.95rc2 didn't exhibit this issue. Opened bug ID 1510. Thank you, Frank >On Wed Mar 25 2009 23:31:39 GMT+0100 (CET) >fchan wrote: >&g

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav on Mac OS X 10.4 Server

I see the same thing here on a PowerBook G4 running 10.4 (Tiger). I had ClamXav with clamav engine 0.83 running okay since 10.3.9. Frank I've just "upgraded" to Mac OS X Server, which according to all the literature includes clamav... version 0.81! Upon downloading clamav-0.84, I discovered that

Re: [Clamav-users] Slow scanning of large Power Point Presentations

Hi Chris, That should be understandable for what it is scanning. This is also affected by if there are large images in the file. My boss creates 40MB PowerPoints which takes 162 second (2.7 minutes) to scan. But remember the system is doing other things at the same time when it is scanning th

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan can see TNEF files but clamdscan cannot

Hi, You need to compile it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef/. I have it and you need recompile clamav so it knows it is there. I hope this helps. Regards, Frank Hi, It seems that clamdscan cannot detect TNEF files but clamscan will detect them. I tested this with the EICAR winmail.d

[Clamav-users] clamav 0.88.1 compile error.

Hello, I was doing and make on clamav 0.88.1 and I got this error message. I'm running linux 2.4.30 and I'm checking if anyone everyone seen this error. I have installed clamav 0.88.1 on several other systems without any problem but this is the first time I've seen this error. gcc -g -O2 -o .

[Clamav-users] Is there that many updates to the daily.cvd today?

Is there that much new malware just for today to get this many updates to the daily.cvd? Correct me if I'm wrong but today started at 1601 and it is now 1607 for the Pacific Time zone and the day isn't over yet. The mirrors are having a hard time keeping up. Regards, Frank

Re: [Clamav-users] Is there that many updates to the daily.cvd today?

Hello Christoph, Thank you and all other Clamav team members for your hard work to keep us safe. Again thank you, Frank Hello fchan, Wednesday, July 19, 2006, 12:52:05 AM, you wrote: Is there that much new malware just for today to get this many updates to the daily.cvd? Correct me if I&#

[Clamav-users] Clamav cvd mirrors sync?

Hello, I'm noticed on several system I manage at this moment that the daily.cvd is 2107 but one of them is daily.cvd is 2108. So I did an freshclam -v --no-dns on the systems with 2107 and it showed: Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav Max retries == 3 ClamAV update process started at Thu