Problems with RAR files

[Julian Field]

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At 17:45 20/09/2004, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > Behalf Of Ricardo Luis Cañavate
> > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 11:08 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Problems with RAR files
> >
> >
> > Hi, I'm trying to test my box with rar files and this is the
> > output of the maillog.
> > Sep 17 14:44:18 servnozar MailScanner[25544]: Virus and Content
> > Scanning: Starting Sep 17 14:44:21 servnozar MailScanner[25557]:
> > New Batch: Found 2 messages waiting Sep 17 14:44:21 servnozar
> > MailScanner[25557]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 7175 bytes
> > Sep 17 14:44:23 servnozar MailScanner[25544]:
>
>It's because you are using external unrar and the MS parser for clamav
>doesn't understand the output from unrar, it should catch the clam output
>correctly and handle it accordingly, it's just not understanding the unrar
>information lines.

The latest versions do successfully analyse the output from the external 
unrar program, they just don't recognise all the rubbish it outputs as 
well. If you are using a recent version, you should still be detecting all 
the viruses.
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