Heads UP: Suspicious file not detected by most virusscanners.

Roger Jochem roger at RUDNICK.COM.BR
Fri Jun 3 12:40:39 IST 2005


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Sorry. Mcafee is detecting it too now...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Jochem" <roger at rudnick.com.br>
To: "MailScanner mailing list" <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: Heads UP: Suspicious file not detected by most virusscanners.


> I'm receiving a lot of them... Only clamav was detecting it on my server
in
> the begining... Now bitdefender is detecting it to. But mcafee does not...
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hywel Burris" <hywel.burris at COMTEC-EUROPE.CO.UK>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Heads UP: Suspicious file not detected by most virusscanners.
>
>
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stijn Jonker [mailto:SJCJonker at SJC.NL]
> > > Sent: 03 June 2005 07:11
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Heads UP: Suspicious file not detected by most virusscanners.
> > >
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > Hash: SHA1
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I just received 2 copies of an mail containing a text that
> > > Osama Bin Laden was captured, with an attachment of pics.zip
> > > (900 bytes).
> > >
> > > Virustotal.com didn't report anything really usefull back,
> > > will be doing my rounds through the submissions sites of
> > > mcafee,norman, symantec and clamav.
> > >
> > > Output of virustotal.com:
> > > Antivirus Version Update Result
> > > AntiVir 6.30.0.15 06.02.2005
> > > Heuristic/Trojan.Downloader
> > > AVG 718 06.02.2005 no virus found
> > > Avira 6.30.0.15 06.02.2005 Heuristic/Trojan.Downloader
> > > BitDefender 7.0 06.02.2005 BehavesLike:Trojan.Downloader
> > > ClamAV devel-20050501 06.02.2005
> > > Trojan.Downloader.Small-561
> > > DrWeb 4.32b 06.02.2005 no virus found
> > > eTrust-Iris 7.1.194.0 06.02.2005 no virus found
> > > eTrust-Vet 11.9.1.0 06.02.2005 no virus found
> > > Fortinet 2.27.0.0 06.03.2005 W32/Gifget.A-tr
> > > Ikarus 2.32 06.03.2005 no virus found
> > > Kaspersky 4.0.2.24 06.03.2005
> > > Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.axr
> > > McAfee 4505 06.02.2005 no virus found
> > > NOD32v2 1.1124 06.02.2005 probably unknown
> > > NewHeur_PE virus
> > > Norman 5.70.10 06.03.2005 W32/Downloader
> > > Panda 8.02.00 06.02.2005 no virus found
> > > Sybari 7.5.1314 06.03.2005 W32/Downloade
> > > Symantec 8.0 06.02.2005 no virus found
> > > VBA32 3.10.3 06.02.2005 no virus found
> >
> >
> > I had F-Prot pick this up first along with trusty old
> > MailScanner..Bitdefender would have as it picked it up as suspicious but
> > MailScanner allowed it through where do I change this behaviour? I had a
> > look in bitdefender-wrapper but couldn't see any config there.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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