Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes

Leonard Chatagnier lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Apr 7 01:34:36 UTC 2009


--- On Mon, 4/6/09, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
From: Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net>
Subject: Re: Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 4:05 PM

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

>
>
> --- On Mon, 4/6/09, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> The key I used was the one from the error message. The info
>> on the site
>> that you refer to is for checking package integrity, not
>> for
>> verifying the download site.
>>
> Really, I would expect the gpg key for package verification to
> be there too on the downloads section.  Maybe I'm wrong and thinking 
> of another package as have done a few of late.
>
>> As it turns out, adding the source to sources.list and
>> running apt-get
>> update adds the packages to synaptic even without
>> verification. When I
>> installed them I was notified they couldn't be verified
>> but they seemed
>> to install O.K. When I get some time tomorrow I'll see
>> how it goes.
>>
> Great, then you solved your problem. As mentioned BD is much faster
> than clamscan and I have come to use it more than clamscan. Enjoy,

Not quite. The problem was/is being able to authenticate the d/l server. 
I finally found what gpg server they use in the users manual and was 
able to import the key and export it to a local file per the manual's 
instructions. Only problem is that it's not the same key as in the error 
message, so I still get the error message and can't authenticate the 
server. *Sigh*, at least I can sort of run the app.

FYI, I ran bdscan on a 73Gb $HOME/mail file and after a few minutes the 
box crashed with a cpu overtemp warning. The cpu is an AMD Athlon 5200. 
It looks like I will have to break the scan into segments.

Anyone else run into this?

Thanks for your reply.


You need to clean out the fuzzies-:))
Only trying to help here and you probably know more than I.
What do you find in your:
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.bitdefender.com_repos_deb_dists_bitdefender_Release.gpg

Mine contains the following:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEABECAAYFAkmIYcAACgkQo3P7SA7E/gU6SACg6KtIq/b5nuMBRuIs2dsuXvr/
B9sAn3QlQpPW9064hgBfi67AoTZx9Xj4
=4Wh3
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

If you have something different, that may be the cause.


Leonard Chatagnier

lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net

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