clamscan - oversized zip, workaround?

Jon Fraley jfraley at glenraven.com
Wed Jan 14 21:39:58 GMT 2004


On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 03:47, 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

After making this change, do I just need to re-install clamav?

Jon



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