[sanesecurity] Re: False Positive with Spammer.ec-messenger.com

  • From: "James Brown" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "jlbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
  • To: sanesecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:12:09 +1100

Getting heaps of false positives myself with these new SecuriteInfo.com 
<http://securiteinfo.com/> sigs as well.

James.

> On 28 Mar 2015, at 1:14 am, Steve Basford <steveb_clamav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, March 27, 2015 1:13 pm, Wolfgang Zeikat wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 
>> the signature hits subscribed newsletters from the Swiss newspaper Neue
>> Zürcher Zeitung
> 
> 
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> That signatures is from SecuriteInfo.com databases and not under my
> control/or distributed by the Sanesecurity mirrors.
> 
> The full signature name to report is:
> 
> SecuriteInfo.com.Spammer.ec-messenger.com.
> 
> 
> Recently on the ClamAV-Users list they announced that the had more
> signatures than their other 3rd Partly "competitors"
> .... and had zero false positives:
> 
> See their site:
> 
> https://www.securiteinfo.com/services/improve-detection-rate-of-zero-day-malwares-for-clamav.shtml
> 
> They also said....
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> The (very very very) old clamav.securiteinfo.com/securiteinfo.hdb.gz has
> been removed The old signatures (hosted by clamav.securiteinfo.com) will
> not be updated anymore, and will be removed in a few weeks.
> 
> Don't hesitate to send me your feedbacks off list at
> webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Sorry I can't help further :(
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Steve
> Web : sanesecurity.com
> Blog: sanesecurity.blogspot.com
> 
> 

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