dealing with zips with corrupted headers

Kevin Spicer kevins at BMRB.CO.UK
Wed Nov 5 08:04:08 GMT 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 07:59, Kevin Spicer wrote:
> 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.

I've posted your original message to clamav-users I'll cross post any
relevent replies back here.




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