Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread jef moskot
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jim Maul wrote: > What if the plumber and the mechanic work on it together? ;) What if the electrician goes to night school to learn ornithology? ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

Re: [Clamav-users] RAR module failure

2005-02-01 Thread jef moskot
Is there an eicar sample wrapped up using this version of rar available? Jeffrey Moskot System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users

Re: [Clamav-users] Exploit.W32.MS05-002 False Positives

2005-02-09 Thread jef moskot
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Maxim Britov wrote: > > > P900\Beyonce Knowles - Crazy In Love (2).wav: Exploit.W32.MS05-002 FOUND > I don't know, but size is ~50-100KB. If they're tiny files, are you sure they're actually wavs? Maybe someone downloaded these things and instead of funky beats, they're full o

RE: [Clamav-users] Re: Freshclam and Cron

2005-02-22 Thread jef moskot
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Cormack, Ken wrote: > > I can't understand why everyone runs this through cron when it doesn't > > eat much memory or cpu cycles when run as a daemon? > > I can think of lots of reasons. The way I look at it, if you need something in cron to periodically check that the freshcl

[Clamav-users] eicar within tnef

2005-03-22 Thread jef moskot
Is anyone having trouble detecting Test #14 (the TNEF test) from http://www.webmail.us/testvirus ? I know there's been a lot of discussion about eicar detection with regards to Clam recently, and, to complicate the issue, I can't seem to unpack the winmail.dat file, so it could be that things have

Re: [Clamav-users] eicar within tnef

2005-03-22 Thread jef moskot
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > ClamAV doesn't support the TNEF format. Hmm, good point. I also forgot to mention I'm using ClamAV 0.83, but I guess that's irrelevant. I use amavis to pass the files off to ClamAV and I haven't changed anything (purposely) with it, but prior to this wee

Re: [Clamav-users] test virus # 14 - my setup or something else?

2005-03-24 Thread jef moskot
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Sean Franklin wrote: > http://www.testvirus.org/ > Anyway, #14 got thru this time: > Test #14: Eicar virus sent in a Microsoft TNEF file (winmail.dat) I noticed the same thing this week. I believe, as Nigel mentioned, that the winmail.dat file is corrupt and cannot be read.

[Clamav-users] /var/tmp/clamav-partial hanging around

2005-05-02 Thread jef moskot
If I do the #24 testvirus test ( http://www.webmail.us/testvirus ), the mail is delivered properly (which is fine, because there's no virus in there), but I also get a little file in /var/tmp/clamav-partial named something like partialmsg### that doesn't go away. Inside the file is the data po

Re: [clamav-users] Signature updates: Where from?

2003-01-31 Thread jef moskot
Dave Sill writes: > If you're running ClamAV in addition to a commercial scanner, or using > it to filter out junk e-mail messages, then its database is complete > enough, is updated regularly enough, and clamscan is reliable enough. In our experience, 98% of all intercepted messages are Klez vari

Re: [clamav-users] klez detection dropped after Iframe rule added.

2003-02-14 Thread jef moskot
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Nigel Kukard wrote: > most klez infections use the IFrame exploit, so infact the IFrame Exploit > will match before the klez one. what we do is break up the email into all > the mime peices, decode them and scan the individual portions, most of the > time clamscan picks up both

Re: [clamav-users] clamav site, and freshclam...

2003-03-19 Thread jef moskot
Tomasz said: > Also there's an official FreeBSD port, but only for 0.54. This is excellent news. Congratulations, this should certainly increase the number of ClamAV users. (I hope they weren't responsible for the network problems on elektrapro!) It would be very convenient if you (or the port

Re: [clamav-users] am I understanding this right?

2003-06-10 Thread jef moskot
On Monday 09 June 2003 18:44, Stephen White wrote: > The sender will see the bounce, Also note that most of the recent worms forge the From: address, so all the bounce message does is increase net traffic and confuse uninvolved parties. Jeffrey Moskot System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamscan: how to tell which message number in anmbox?

2003-08-23 Thread jef moskot
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Daniel Wiberg wrote: > Delete a mail from a mailfile can be done manually, so that shouldn't be a > problem. I use a nice little utility called "mboxgrep", which you can also use to remove spam and such once it's already been delivered on your system. You can do something lik

Re: [Clamav-users] Suggestion

2003-09-02 Thread jef moskot
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Graham Murray wrote: > On the contrary, if it is not dangerous and ClamAV does not detect it > and product X does, then ClamAV is superior as Product X has just > generated a false positive! While you certainly have made a reasonable case from a technical standpoint, I don't th

[Clamav-users] instance of Mimail.G getting through

2003-11-06 Thread jef moskot
I have a copy of Mimail.G ("readnow.zip") which is getting through my ClamAV installation, but is detected when I submit it through the specimen scanner on gietl.com I'm using "clamscan / ClamAV version 0.60", which I know is not up-to-date, but would this explain why the worm is getting through?

Re: [Clamav-users] Zip issues

2003-11-06 Thread jef moskot
> http://clamav.sf.net/snapshot/clamav-20031106-tk.tar.gz > Please test it ASAP. Thank you. OK, there's progress: > clamscan -V clamscan / ClamAV version devel-20031106 > clamscan readnow.zip readnow.zip: Worm.Mimail.G FOUND --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 19846 Scanned

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus not detected

2003-11-07 Thread jef moskot
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, [iso-8859-1] Mário Luis Ghoneim wrote: > > --disable-archive --unzip > > But it doesn't work yet :( I added this line to my clamscan call and it didn't work either. I can provide a sample of the zip file that causes the problem, if that would help. If I zip up other virus sam

Re: [Clamav-users] photos.zip - Mimail.C

2003-11-07 Thread jef moskot
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, [iso-8859-1] Mário Luis Ghoneim wrote: > I sent a zip file ( http://www.jcradios.com.br/virus/hello.zip ) and clamav > worked fine. This means that my amavis installation it's ok, or no yet :-|? > > So, if I send this wrong zip file ( > http://www.jcradios.com.br/virus/photos.zi

Re: [Clamav-users] photos.zip - Mimail.C

2003-11-08 Thread jef moskot
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > There must be something wrong with amavis. Is everyone who's having this problem using amavis on FreeBSD? I know there have been problems with those zip libraries in the past. I'm using the p5-Archive-Zip-1.08 port right now. I also have an external zipp

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Win32.HLLM.Foo

2003-11-12 Thread jef moskot
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Serge Sivkov wrote: > Archive: photos.zip I've just gone through the same thing. If you run clamscan on the file directly from the command line, you'll probably see that it detects the virus appropriately. The "problem" appears to be in the Archive::Zip perl module, which c

Re: [Clamav-users] sober.p and german adverts?

2005-05-16 Thread jef moskot
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Matt Fretwell wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > > The world experience is that Windows drones on dialups or cable/dsl > > are a major source of spam/viruses. > That is coming back to the dynamic elitist viewpoint. I agree with both of you, actually. In theory, of course, Mat

[Clamav-users] should Broken.Executable files be submitted?

2005-06-02 Thread jef moskot
I've got a couple .pif files that McAfee detects as W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] and clamscan doesn't detect at all, in its default mode. If I use the --detect-broken option, they're picked up as Broken.Executable. Since --detect-broken is not the default behavior for clamscan, should these still be sub

Re: [Clamav-users] How many False Positives with the "broken EXE" option?

2005-06-04 Thread jef moskot
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Jason Haar wrote: > I've always been too afraid to turn it on as I was concerned about any > assumptions made by the code might lead it to block otherwise valid > executables I wonder about that too, since it's not the default behavior. For what it's worth, I turned it on earl

Re: [Clamav-users] How to use clamav-milter?

2005-06-15 Thread jef moskot
Out of curiosity, is clamav-milter necessary to use clamscan (not clamd) with sendmail and SpamAssassin? Right now, I use amavis between sendmail and clamscan but when I upgrade the system, I'd like to use SpamAssassin. I'd like to use the simplest setup possible, so if I'm going to be using Spam

Re: [Clamav-users] How to use clamav-milter?

2005-06-16 Thread jef moskot
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Damian Menscher wrote: > clamav-milter works *only* as a plugin to sendmail. There will be a > line in your sendmail.mc that tells sendmail to send stuff to the > milter. This is exactly how amavis is working right now. > One could "simplify" by having procmail call clamdsca

Re: [Clamav-users] Creating your own signatures

2005-06-18 Thread jef moskot
I read your message and decided it sounded like something interesting to try to block spam, and I'm having the opposite problem. I did a "sigtool --md5 g1.gif > g1.hdb" and stuck the result in my definitions directory. When I scan the gif directly, it works: # clamscan g1.gif g1.gif: Spam.g1 FOUN

Re: [Clamav-users] Creating your own signatures

2005-06-20 Thread jef moskot
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, jef moskot wrote: > If I forward the spam with the attached image to myself, clamscan picks > it up. If I forward the image itself in a different message to myself, > clamscan also detects it. > > However, if I clamscan the original mail file with the spam in

Re: [Clamav-users] Creating your own signatures

2005-07-05 Thread jef moskot
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, jef moskot wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, jef moskot wrote: > > If I forward the spam with the attached image to myself, clamscan picks > > it up. If I forward the image itself in a different message to myself, > > clamscan also detects it. > > >

RE: [Clamav-users] Clamav + Exim on FreeBSD

2005-07-07 Thread jef moskot
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > www.zlib.net is still showing 1.2.2 from Oct 3 2004 as the latest version. > Where is the version that was released yesterday ? It affects FreeBSD 5.4 and 5.4, so if you have 4.x, you might not have noticed. Full details here: ftp://ftp.freebsd

RE: [Clamav-users] Clamav + Exim on FreeBSD

2005-07-07 Thread jef moskot
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, jef moskot wrote: > It affects FreeBSD 5.4 and 5.4... Oops, that's 5.3 and 5.4. Sorry about that. Jeffrey Moskot System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav + Exim on FreeBSD

2005-07-07 Thread jef moskot
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Where is the new version of zlib, if you might know? I'm not sure that it's a new version of zlib, exactly, especially since the problem and the fix seem to be OS-specific. If you have FreeBSD 5.3 or 5.4, there are explicit instructions for what to

Re: [Clamav-users] announce? was (v0.86.2 'OUTDATED' version check INCORRECT ... reports as OLDER than v0.86.1)

2005-07-25 Thread jef moskot
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Christopher McCrory said: > > What are the chances of getting new version announcements to the 'users' > > list also? > Monitor your logs - you don't need anyone's help to learn there's a new > version. Just a cron entry that grep's -i "warning" pipe ma

Re: [Clamav-users] Unofficial Phishing Signatures

2006-02-02 Thread jef moskot
The latest batch seems to include a number of false positives, so I had to revert. I don't want to submit private user data, but an example is the apparently legit report from eBay entitled "Changes to eBay User Agreement and Privacy Policy". Other issues include apparently legitimate communicati

Re: [Clamav-users] Unofficial Phishing Signatures

2006-02-02 Thread jef moskot
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Steve Basford wrote: > Could you give me the signature names that match the false positives > please. Oh, duh. Of course. Looks like 2 completely different kinds of eBay communications both matched: Html.Phishing.Auction.Gen009.Sanesecurity.06020102 Thanks. Jeffrey Moskot

Re: [Clamav-users] bash script to split mbox file and scan individual messages

2006-08-28 Thread jef moskot
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Bit Fuzzy wrote: > As for the situation, we've been using ClamAV for going on 3 years now, > and I have never (I repeat never) seen this occur. Occasionally there are major virus flare-ups (and often there are phishing scams and such) that occur before an appropriate signature

Re: [Clamav-users] bash script to split mbox file and scan individual messages

2006-08-28 Thread jef moskot
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > jef moskot wrote: > > Occasionally there are major virus flare-ups (and often there are phishing > > scams and such) that occur before an appropriate signature is in place. > When do you actually scan then? Do you scan when the ema

Re: [Clamav-users] bash script to split mbox file and scan individual messages

2006-08-28 Thread jef moskot
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can see this working in a smaller environment although I still think > it is less then ideal... I think we all agree with that, but the world is a somewhat less than ideal place and there are some cases where such a tool is useful. Thanks to the or

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread jef moskot
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > What you're talking about is hassle...if it's too much hassle, you move > on to something else. That's fine and dandy. But there are many many > many people who are using, for example, ClamAV without throwing a fit > because there's too much in the c

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread jef moskot
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > On Nov 10, 2006, at 11:07 AM, jef moskot wrote: > > If some packages install without difficulty and others do not, then > > how about we work together to bring the less efficient packages in line > > with the more effective ones?

Re: [Clamav-users] submit-to-publish time much too long for phishing

2006-11-29 Thread jef moskot
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, JamesDR wrote: > ...if your users are being let down by the 'time it takes to get a phish > sig' then isn't about time their network/mail admin looked into added > levels of detection? I think the original point was that if Clam is going to scan for phishing at all, the respon

[Clamav-users] Does ClamAV scan the header?

2007-03-03 Thread jef moskot
I was thinking of doing something hacky by having clam triggered by specific text in an X-header. I haven't made a signature based on a simple text string before, but it didn't look very difficult based on the docs. Aside from the basic poor design and misuse of tools involved, would there be any

Re: [Clamav-users] Does ClamAV scan the header?

2007-03-03 Thread jef moskot
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, [ISO-8859-1] Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote: > This middle-software will get the email text, save in a file and ask > clamav to scan those files. If headers are saved as well, so clamav will > YES scan headers. If the software saves only body, then clamav will have > no acce

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