ClamAV 0.90 released

[Scott Silva]

Rick Cooper spake the following on 2/14/2007 8:33 AM:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
>> [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
I'm sure Julian would appreciate some tested patches to ease his workload.

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