clamscan - oversized zip, workaround?

[Martin Hepworth]

Jan-Peter Koopmann wrote:
> Hi Darren,
>
>
>>At Mon Jan 12 18:05:43 2004 the virus scanner said:
>>   ClamAV: ad_tif.zip contains Oversized Zip "
>>
>>This is a known issue with ClamAV and I was wondering if
>>anyone had a good workaround.  If not a good work around, how
>>can I disable scanning the contents of zip files.  I modified
>>/usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-wrapper as below and restarted
>>MailScanner but that didn't seem to do the trick.
>
>
> Edit libclamav/scanners.c and change
>
> #define ZIPOSDET 20 /* FIXME: Make it user definable */
>
> to
>
> #define ZIPOSDET 50 /* FIXME: Make it user definable */
>
>
> Works like a charm on my installations.
>
> Regards,
>   JP

Earlier discusion on this suggests a value of 70 or more *may* be needed..

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


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