Skipping filename checks inside zip files

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 23 09:09:32 IST 2004


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At 04:47 23/09/2004, you wrote:
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>On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:02:25AM +0200, Peter Bonivart wrote:
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> > # To disable this feature set this to 0.
> > # A common useful setting is this option = 0, and Allow Password-Protected
> > # Archives = no. That block password-protected archives but does not do
> > # any filename/filetype checks on the files within the archive.
> > Maximum Archive Depth = 0
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>    Maybe I misread this description the last 20 or so times I looked
>at it.  Could someone clarify whether setting this to "0" still allows
>virus scanning within the archive?

Yes, archives will still be virus scanned, regardless of what you set this to.
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