Sweep and .zip

Stephen Lee splee at PLEXIO.COM
Mon Aug 4 21:04:54 IST 2003


I believe MS/Sophos has been able to do this for quite a while. You can
test this with the test viruses eicar.zip and eicar2.zip.

Stephen

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:58, Julian Field wrote:
> Yes, it adds the "-archive" switch which tells it to scan all archive
> files.
>
> At 17:54 04/08/2003, you wrote:
> > In order to have Sophos sweep scan and get inside of .zip files, you
> > have to run
> >
> > sweep -zip filename.zip
> >
> >
> > How do you have sweep scan .zip and other compressed files when
> > called from Mailscanner?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > David
> >
>
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