Clamscan and RAR failures

Rick Cooper rcooper at DWFORD.COM
Tue Aug 24 14:44:54 IST 2004


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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Gib Gilbertson Jr.
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 8:28 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Clamscan and RAR failures
>
>
> Hi Julian.
>
> It's passing the viruses on through and delivering them.
>
> gib


is the .rar. password protected? and Have you checked using clamav rather
than the module? The module doesn't use unrar



>
> At 01:45 PM 8/24/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> >At 13:02 24/08/2004, you 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.
> >
> >But is it detecting the viruses in them?
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