Russian Text = Executable?

[Alex Broens]

On 8/3/2009 4:47 PM, Remco Barendse wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Richard Bollinger wrote:
> 
>> Here's the patch I applied:
>> --- ../msdos.FCS        2009-07-03 13:55:06.000000000 -0400
>> +++ file-5.03/magic/Magdir/msdos        2009-07-03 14:05:25.000000000 
>> -0400
>> @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@
>> # but it isn't feasible to match all COM files since there must be at 
>> least
>> # two dozen different one-byte "magics".
>> # test too generic ?
>> -0      byte            0xe9            DOS executable (COM)
>> +##0    byte            0xe9            DOS executable (COM)
>> >0x1FE leshort         0xAA55          \b, boot code
>> >6     string          SFX\ of\ LHarc  (%s)
>> 0      belong  0xffffffff              DOS executable (device driver)
>> @@ -311,13 +311,13 @@
>> >>>77  string  <\x5B
>> >>>>77 string  x                       \b, name: %.8s
>> # test too generic ?
>> -0      byte            0x8c            DOS executable (COM)
>> +##0    byte            0x8c            DOS executable (COM)
>> # updated by Joerg Jenderek at Oct 2008
>> 0      ulelong         0xffff10eb      DR-DOS executable (COM)
>> # byte 0xeb conflicts with "sequent" magic leshort 0xn2eb
>> 0      ubeshort&0xeb8d >0xeb00
>> # DR-DOS STACKER.COM SCREATE.SYS missed
>> ->0     byte            0xeb            DOS executable (COM)
>> +##>0   byte            0xeb            DOS executable (COM)
>> >>0x1FE leshort                0xAA55          \b, boot code
>> >>85   string          UPX             \b, UPX compressed
>> >>4    string          \ $ARX          \b, ARX self-extracting archive
>>
> 
> 
> Suffering from the same problem. How and where should this patch be 
> applied?  Any chance of the patch making it into MailScanner?

this has nothing to do with MailScanner and doesn't affect all distros.

Submitting to distro/package mantainers is the safe way to get it fixed 
for good.