[clamav-users] Am I allowed to use yara rules?

G.W. Haywood clamav at jubileegroup.co.uk
Tue Sep 3 07:58:54 UTC 2019


Hi there,

On Mon, 2 Sep 2019, Thomas Barth via clamav-users wrote:

> today I got informed that I should not use the yara rules. They have major 
> issues with clamav 1.0.1, ie memory leaks and complete failure of clamav.

I see nothing in which refers to such an issue in the ClamAV Bugzilla.

> My question is where I can download a bunch of infected e-mails of all types 
> to test clamav and see if it really crashes.

It's a tricky request, please see for example

https://www.eicar.org/?page_id=3950

I hope you're going to do this in a sandbox!

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73,
Ged.



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