stopping clamav detecting encrypted zip files

[Gareth]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 10:10, Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> Gareth wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 17:04, Aaron K. Moore wrote:
> > 
> >> Are you using the clamavmodule?  I've had the same problem.  There's a
> >> commandline switch to turn that notice if when using clamscan, but not
> >> with the module.  I'd suggested earlier that someone should add code for
> >> clamav, like the code for Sophos that allows you to specify messages to
> >> ignore.
> > 
> > I think its a bug in Mailscanner. There appears to be code in place in
> > the routine which calls clamavmodule which disables blocking of
> > encrypted files if there is a config option 'allowpasszips' set but I
> > cannot find that option.
> > 
> > Anyway below is a diff which disables blocking of encrypted archives
> > which is working fine for me.
> > 
> > /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/SweepViruses.pm
> > 1069c1069
> > <                                Mail::ClamAV::CL_SCAN_BLOCKENCRYPTED()
> > |
> > ---
> >> #                               Mail::ClamAV::CL_SCAN_BLOCKENCRYPTED()
> > |
> 
> [Quoting Julian from 07/20/2005]
> If you have MailScanner set to allow password-protected zip and rar 
> archives, then this option is disabled. If you have it set to block 
> password-protected archives, then this option is enabled.
> [Quoting Julian from 07/20/2005]
> 
> See this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.virus.mailscanner/30201

Thanks. I wanted Mailscanner to block encrypted archives which it does
well by itself but not to tell clamav to identify encrypted archives as
viruses.