AVG Antivirus scanner problem

Rick Cooper rcooper at dwford.com
Mon Jun 11 22:22:21 IST 2007



Julian Field wrote:
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>  Rick Cooper wrote:
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> > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] *On Behalf Of
> > *Julian Field *Sent:* Monday, June 11, 2007 10:13 AM *To:*
> > MailScanner discussion *Subject:* Re: AVG Antivirus scanner problem
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> >
[...]

> > I can and I did (forget to quotemeta). I was getting ready to make
> > the patch and it occured to me that current avgscan supports
> > trapping password protected files in archives. Should that be
> > enabled depending on the setting for "Allow Password-Protected
> > Archives"? If so the scanner options need changing and the parser
> > needs to be updated to catch the "Contains password-protected
> > files" string. Or would you prefer to catch them in the upack
> > function only and not bother with the scanner(s) checking as well?
> >
>  I want them caught in the unpack function only, not in the virus
>  scanner. I just changed this for ClamAV as people only wanted it
>  doing in the unpack function.
>
>  Thanks for the patch, I'll take look at it now.
[...]

    er... I didn't send a patch yet, sorry

Rick

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