MailScanner issue not detecting MyDoom-0 [Re: nested .zip containing bad files not being caught]

[Christiaan den Besten]

Not sure what the impact is (decided not to check that, but instead fix the
problem). Just add some nice comment in languages.conf to "AchiveTooDeep"
and all will works just fine.

bye,
Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lee" <t.d.lee at DURHAM.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: MailScanner issue not detecting MyDoom-0 [Re: nested .zip
containing bad files not being caught]


> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Christiaan den Besten wrote:
>
> > Is it just me, or are the language files missing the keyword
> > "ArchiveTooDeep" to be using this 'new' Message.pm ?
>
> Not just you.
>
> I tried it this morning on one of our installations, version 4.30.3,
> and I, too, saw syslog messages of the form:
>
>    Looked up unknown string archivetoodeep in language translation file
/etc/MailScanner/reports/en/languages.conf
>
> I decided to backtrack because I had a long all-day meeting so was unable
> to spend time working out how serious (or not) this error might be.
>
> It is also holiday season so I don't particularly want to migrate to a new
> version of MS just before a holiday (although I would be happy to install
> a small, targeted patch that didn't have side-effects such as the above).
>
> How serious is this error?  How compatible is this new "Message.pm" with
> various versions of MS?
>
>
>
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