ClamAV 0.90 released - and new SA 3.1.8

Peter Russell pete at enitech.com.au
Thu Feb 15 04:55:33 CET 2007


What we can we do to help with the a new sa-clamav installer?

Scott Silva wrote:
> Rick Cooper spake the following on 2/14/2007 8:33 AM:
>>  
>>
>>> -----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
>>> --
>> 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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