That worked! I changed the ratio to 1000 from 300 and the zip file came right through. thank you so much for explaining the compression differences -- that's exactly what I needed.
thanks again! Laura ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mitch (WebCob)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 5:55 PM Subject: RE: [Clamav-users] OverSize.Zip file > Winzip reports the AVERAGE and clam uses the PEAK value... try bumping up > the value to two or three times that amount: > ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio from 1000 > to test this... the culprit could be an ascii file with a lot of white space > that is hugely compressible. > > m/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Laura > Penhallow > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Clamav-users] OverSize.Zip file > > > I apologize in advance if this is something easy, but I am at my wits end. > We have a customer that needs to receive rather large zip files from a > client of theirs. > Trouble is -- clam keeps classifying the attachment as an OverSized.Zip > virus and rejects it. > > The zip file is ~8.7 mb contains 1506 files and winzip reports 78 % > compression. > We're running Clam v 0.74 > I have been googling and reading other posts and I have made the following > changes to clamav.conf > > Changed -- ArchiveMaxFileSize from 10M to 20M > Changed -- ArchiveMaxFiles from 1000 to 2000 > Changed -- ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio from 200 to 300 > > Still no luck. Is there something I am missing?? > > thanks in advance > > Laura > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
