Clam not scanning

Steven Andrews sandrews at andrewscompanies.com
Tue Jul 22 15:57:57 IST 2008


Actually, the more I look into this it appears that MS is catching them
as bad content since exe's are there when it's greater than zero; so I
suppose that is correct behavior, no?  When is clam triggered?



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Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:42 AM
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Subject: Re: Clam not scanning



Steven Andrews wrote:
>
> When I've got "Maximum Archive Depth" set to 0, clam won't scan inside

> zip files even though the setting says it doesn't affect scanning in 
> archives at all.
>
In which case something outside MailScanner is affecting your ClamAV 
setup. Believe me, the "Maximum Archive Depth" setting really has 
nothing to do with virus scanning whatsoever. Your ClamAV should be set 
to scan inside archives by default, check that for starters. Set "Virus 
Scanners = clamav" and try just using the command-line "clamscan" to 
scan a zip file by hand.
>
> MS is 4.70.7-1
>
> Clam is 0.91.1
>
> SA is 3.2.5
>
> Tried it with the eicar test from here: 
> http://www.aleph-tec.com/eicar/index.php
>
> I had set max archive depth at zero because we get a lot of zips and 
> sometimes they get blocked because it can't unpack them.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> *Steven R. Andrews*, President
> Andrews Companies Incorporated
> /Small Business Information Technology Consultants/
> sandrews at andrewscompanies.com
> Phone: 317.536.1807
>
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>
> "If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."
>

Jules

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