ClamAV 0.90 released

[Rick Cooper]

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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Randal, Phil
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 5:54 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: ClamAV 0.90 released
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Good news and bad news.
> 
> First the good news - ClamAV 0.90 is now officially releases.
> 
> And the bad - Mail::ClamAV has yet to be updated to work with it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Phil
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I would think an update will take a while, they removed some entire
functions, and some have changed pretty major. Although notes inside the
last Mail::ClamAV dist would tend to make one believe the author was aware
of some of them at the time of the 0.90RCxx releases the changed yet again.
For instance the cl_scanbuffer was changed to cli_scanbuffer and now it
appears to have been replaced with cl_scanfile and no longer takes the same
arguments. I did manage to fix up the Mail::ClamAV package to a working
version but was going to need MS changes also. I ended up opting to use
clamd and clamdscan instead. If you decide to go that route you need to
remove the ExtraScanOptions from the wrapper, and remove the -r option from
SweepVirues.pm (or you will get a harmless error message telling you the -r
option was ignored).

The clamdscan option seems to be pretty quick and works well.

A Note to Julian:

	I was using the 0.90RC version on one server so I had to add some
code to SweepViruses to check the clamav version and modify the
$Scanners{clamav}->{CommonOptions} .= " --unrar=$rarcmd"; portion of
SweepViruses to check versions and if major is >= 0.90 then don't add the
--unrarcmd as 0.90 has a working unrar function.

Rick


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