On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:39:02 -0500
René Berber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Tomasz Kojm wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:10:35 -0500
> > René Berber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>does not enable detecting them.  Why? because you have to uncomment
> >>DisableDefaultScanOptions to enable or disable the other options;
> >even >if you have DetectBrokenExecutables uncommented the default
> >value of >disabled is in effect...
> > 
> > 
> > This is wrong.
> 
> >From version 0.83 clamd.conf man page:
> 
>        DisableDefaultScanOptions
>               By  default  clamd uses scan options recommended by lib-
>               clamav. This option  disables  recommended  options  and
>               allows  you to enable selected options. DO NOT ENABLE IT
>               unless you know what you are doing.
>               Default: disabled
> 
>        ScanPE PE stands for Portable Executable - it's  an  executable
>               file format used in all 32-bit versions of Windows oper-
>               ating systems. This option allows ClamAV  to  perform  a
>               deeper  analysis  of  executable  files  and  it's  also
>               required for decompression of popular executable packers
>               such as UPX.
>               Default: enabled
> 
>        DetectBrokenExecutables
>               With  this  option  clamd will try to detect broken exe-
>               cutables and mark them as Broken.Executable.
>               Default: disabled
> 
> What is wrong?  To enable detecting broken executables you have to
> change two options in the clamd.conf file (not only one as shown in
> the posted options), one is uncommenting DisableDefaultScanOptions,
> the second is uncommenting DetectBrokenExecutables.

No.

DisableDefaultScanOptions disables features enabled by default and 
DetectBrokenExecutables is not.

Anyway, DisableDefaultScanOptions will be removed in clamav-devel in the
next week.

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