Virus being missed. (assumed)

[Julian Field]

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The new version will use it automatically if you set "Unrar Command" to
point to it in MailScanner.conf.

Anders Kongsted wrote:

> 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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