Virus being missed. (assumed)

[Anders Kongsted]

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How do I install the external RAR support? I also tested eicar.lzh - 
with the same result! :-(

Anders

Matt Kettler wrote:

> At 02:26 PM 3/7/2005, Scott Silva wrote:
>
>> > You can use this site to send a rared eicar file.. It wasn't caught by
>> > clamav until I added external unrar support.
>> >
>> > http://www.info-techs.com/eicar.shtml
>> >
>>
>> I guess this is another plug for having multiple virus scanners 
>> installed.
>> The above test from info-techs gets stopped by McAfee and BitDefender.
>
>
> I agree 100%.
>
> It's also a plug to add as many compression extensions to ClamAV as 
> possible.
>
> ClamAV will catch it just fine if you have unrar added, but will miss it
> entirely if you don't.
>
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