Clamscan and RAR failures

Gib Gilbertson Jr. gib at TMISNET.COM
Tue Aug 24 13:49:19 IST 2004


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Hi

At 08:09 AM 8/24/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>    Your version of clam is way out of date and this was a problem with
>earlier versions.  Update clam (currently 0.75-1).
>
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I updated to ClamAV 0.75.1, restarted MailScanner and still get the same
error message

   MailScanner[34137]: ClamAVModule::ERROR:: RAR module failure::
./i7OCfIYi035381/eicar.rar

unrar is at version 3.30

gib



>On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Gib Gilbertson Jr. wrote:
>
>>Hi All.
>>
>>FreeBSD 4.10
>>Perl 5.8.2
>>MailScanner 4.32.4
>>clamscan / ClamAV version 0.72
>>
>>I am getting the following error when running tests from the heise.de site
>>on RAR files.
>>
>>ClamAVModule::ERROR:: RAR module failure.:: ./i7OBkkhH019323/eicar.rar
>>
>>I've read through the archives, applied the patch to SweepVirus.pm as
>>mentioned in e-mails from Julian on Fri, 13 Aug. I've restarted MailScanner
>>and had the eicar.rar file resent from heise.de and get the same error.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks
>>gib
>>
>>
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>>
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>>    Tierramiga Info Systems
>>     619-287-8647 Support
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      http://www.tmisnet.com
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