Denial Of Service Attack Messages

Jerry Benton jerry.benton at mailborder.com
Wed May 4 19:56:23 UTC 2016


The ClamAv perl module is not used if you are using the clamav daemon. (clamd) It is only used if you are using the slower command line scanner. 

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Jerry Benton
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> On May 4, 2016, at 3:54 PM, Steven Jardine <steve at mjnservices.com> wrote:
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> Would this missing module cause the DOS error message?  My research seems to indicate that it is old and shouldn't be used with ClamAV.  Is this correct?
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> On 05/04/2016 10:10 AM, Steven Jardine wrote:
>> OK.  So this script gives the warning: "WARNING: Mail::ClamAV => Missing".  The problem is that when I try and install Mail::ClamAV it gives me the error "The clamav version you are using is too old. Please upgrade to at least 0.95.1" but my clamav version is 0.98.7.
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>> On 05/04/2016 09:57 AM, Jerry Benton wrote:
>>> get the new ms-check-perl from the v5 branch on github 
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>>> On May 4, 2016, at 11:50, Steven Jardine < <mailto:steve at mjnservices.com>steve at mjnservices.com <mailto:steve at mjnservices.com>> wrote:
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>>>> Do you know which perl modules?  When I run your check_modules.sh script all report OK and I still have the problem.
>>>> On 05/04/2016 09:47 AM, Jerry Benton wrote:
>>>>> I have only seen this error on systems missing perl modules.
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>>>>> On May 4, 2016, at 11:43, Steven Jardine < <mailto:steve at mjnservices.com>steve at mjnservices.com <mailto:steve at mjnservices.com>> wrote:
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>>>>>> Does MailScanner v5 have any fixes for this issue?  Has the problem been identified?  I would really like to re-enable Dangerous Content scanning.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 03/14/2016 06:10 AM, Andrew Southgate wrote:
>>>>>>> well.. thats somewhat fitting...
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> A second attempt at what I was trying to say:
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> but an HTML tag disarm shouldnt replace the contents of the email with "MailScanner was attacked by a Denial Of Service attack..." should it ? 
>>>>>>>  
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>>>>>>> From: MailScanner [ <mailto:mailscanner-bounces+andy=z00b.com at lists.mailscanner.info>mailto:mailscanner-bounces+andy=z00b.com at lists.mailscanner.info <mailto:mailscanner-bounces+andy=z00b.com at lists.mailscanner.info>] On Behalf Of Andrew Southgate
>>>>>>> Sent: 14 March 2016 12:07
>>>>>>> To: 'MailScanner Discussion'
>>>>>>> Subject: RE: Denial Of Service Attack Messages
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> MailScanner was attacked by a Denial Of Service attack, and has therefore deleted this part of the message. Please contact your e-mail providers for more information if you need it, giving them the whole of this report. Attack in: /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/17065/176F782B1073.AABFC/nmsg-17065-12.html
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