ClamAV

Clam Antivirus

Virus scanner for mail and files.

• Homepage
• clamav-milter
• Phishing and Scam Signatures for ClamAV
• Unofficial sigs

A handy script for adding more goodies

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
#extra signatures to catch spam and phishing
#or look at http://www.sanesecurity.com/
LOCATION=/var/db/clamav
GUNZIP=/usr/bin/gunzip
WGET=/usr/local/bin/wget
#and now the script itself
cd $LOCATION || exit -1
$WGET --timestamping http://ftp.tiscali.nl/sanesecurity/phish.ndb.gz && ${GUNZIP} -f phish.ndb.gz
$WGET --timestamping http://ftp.tiscali.nl/sanesecurity/scam.ndb.gz && ${GUNZIP} -f scam.ndb.gz
$WGET --timestamping http://download.mirror.msrbl.com/MSRBL-SPAM.ndb
$WGET --timestamping  http://download.mirror.msrbl.com/MSRBL-Images.hdb
$WGET -O - http://www.malware.com.br/cgi/submit?action=list_clamav > mbl.db
/usr/sbin/chown clamav:clamav *
killall -HUP clamd

FAQ

Amavis not finding socket clamd.ctl

Means clamd is busy handling the queue after a powre failure or such, the socket won't be created before it's done.

INetMsg.SpamDomain-xxx

That's from sanesecurity.net

Milter (clmilter): local socket name /var/run/clamav/clmilter.sock unsafe

Usually means something like clamd not running.

LibClamAV Warning: [Bytecode JIT]: Bytecode run timed out, timeout flag set

Try --bytecode-timeout=120000

LibClamAV Warning: Bytecode run timed out in interpreter after 5000 opcodes

--bytecode-timeout=N

Ignoring mirror x.x.x.x (due to previous errors)

try removing mirrors.dat and daily.cvd