dealing with zips with corrupted headers

Kevin Spicer kevins at BMRB.CO.UK
Wed Nov 5 07:59:05 GMT 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 02:04, Chris Yuzik wrote:

> Is there a disadvantage to editing "/usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-wrapper" and
> removing the "--unzip" option and replacing it with "--disable-archive"? Am I
> on the right track?

I think there may well be, some viruses inside zip files could not then
be found.  Theres also a problem (if MailScanner runs as root) with
clamscan using external archiving programs (see my earlier posts).
Really this should be reported to Clam as a bug.




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