Quarantine doc Files only with Macros?

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Sat Feb 25 20:35:48 CET 2017


There is no difference in $final_virus_destiny ( = D_DISCARD;) an other 
settings concerning virus.

I guess something with whitelisting or bypassing local mail senders.

> -----Original Message-----
> 2017-02-24 17:39, wrote Dino Edwards:
> Strange indeed. Just spit balling here, is the $final_virus_destiny in
> amavis on both servers set the same? Do you have amavis policies set
> on the servers?
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: postmaster at wf-partner.com [mailto:postmaster at wf-partner.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 11:30 AM
> To: Dino Edwards <dino.edwards at mydirectmail.net>
> Cc: amavis-users at amavis.org; amavis-users
> <amavis-users-bounces+postmaster=wf-partner.com at amavis.org>
> Subject: Re: Quarantine doc Files only with Macros?
> 
> You are right, we have two different linux servers with mailservers
> and they are both set in the clamav config files like below but one of
> them is blocking outbound OLE2 macro files and the other one only
> blocks incoming OLE2 marco files?
> Services clamav-daemon and amavis were restarted.
> 
>> -----Original Message----- from Dino Edwards:
>> Did you restart clamav? So you have two mailservers and they are both
>> set in the clamav config files like below but one of them is blocking
>> outbound OLE2 macro files and the other one only blocks incoming OLE2
>> marco files? Am I understanding this correctly?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: postmaster at wf-partner.com [mailto:postmaster at wf-partner.com]
>> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 11:04 AM
>> To: Dino Edwards <dino.edwards at mydirectmail.net>
>> Cc: amavis-users at amavis.org; amavis-users
>> <amavis-users-bounces+postmaster=wf-partner.com at amavis.org>
>> Subject: Re: Quarantine doc Files only with Macros?
>> 
>> Both is set. I had to restart service amavis-daemon I think. But now
>> at one of two mailservers there is only outgoing mail blocked and at
>> the other only incoming mail.
>> 
>> Strange!
>> 
>> 
>> Am 2017-02-24 11:04, schrieb Dino Edwards:
>>> I believe both of these have to be set to true in order for that to
>>> work
>>> 
>>> ScanOLE2 true
>>> OLE2BlockMacros true
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: amavis-users
>>> [mailto:amavis-users-bounces+dino.edwards=mydirectmail.net at amavis.org
>>> ] On Behalf Of postmaster at wf-partner.com
>>> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 2:08 AM
>>> To: amavis-users at amavis.org
>>> Subject: Re: Quarantine doc Files only with Macros?
>>> 
>>> I turned on "OLE2BlockMacros true", but a word file containing a
>>> macro virus was not classified as "INFECTED". I had renamed the file
>>> before sending a test mail.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas what could I do to get all files with macros to be
>>> quarantined?
>>> 
>>> Kind regards
>>> Thomas
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: amavis-users
>>>> [mailto:amavis-users-bounces+dino.edwards=mydirectmail.net at amavis.or
>>>> g ] On Behalf Of Hoyer-Reuther, Christian Christian.Hoyer-Reuther at
>>>> cac-chem.de wrote
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 11:42 AM
>>>> To: amavis-users at amavis.org
>>>> Subject: Quarantine doc Files only with Macros?
>>>> 
>>>> Hello Klaus,
>>>> 
>>>> if you use ClamAV, then you can set it's option "OLE2BlockMacros
>>>> true".
>>>> This detects MS
>>>> Office Macros regardless of the file extension. If a macro is found,
>>>> then the file is classified as a virus ("INFECTED:
>>>> Heuristics.OLE2.ContainsMacros").
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Christian


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