On Apr 10, 2013, at 4:59 PM, A K Varnell <alvarn...@mac.com> wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2013, at 4:41 PM, Scott Ehrlich <sc...@ehrlichtronics.com> wrote:
>
>> You may be correct, though recalling my command-line options, including
>> verbose mode, the mbox file is very large, yet the scan took just a few
>> seconds.
>
> Then you'll need to change:
>
> --max-filesize=#n
> Extract and scan at most #n kilobytes from each archive. You may
> pass the value in megabytes in format xM or xm, where x is a
> number. This option protects your system against DoS attacks
> (default: 25 MB, max: <4 GB)
Sorry, wrong reference:
--max-scansize=#n
Extract and scan at most #n kilobytes from each scanned file.
You may pass the value in megabytes in format xM or xm, where x
is a number. This option protects your system against DoS
attacks (default: 100 MB, max: <4 GB)
-Al-
>> ...
>> Scott
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Steven Morgan <smor...@sourcefire.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Scott,
>>>
>>> Looking at the code, I think the option is 'scan-mail'. It defaults as yes,
>>> so you shouldn't need to do anything special, just clamscan /path/to/mbox/.
>>>
>>> Let us know if that is not working.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Scott Ehrlich <sc...@ehrlichtronics.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just compiled clamav 0.97.7 on SANS SIFT Linux.
>>>>
>>>> Reviewing the README file and google, it appears that clamscan should be
>>>> able to review/scan mbox files, but any attempt at using --mbox, such as
>>>> clamscan --mbox or clamscan -d /tmp/virdir --mbox /path/to/mboxfile,
>>>> reports an error with the --mbox switch.
>>>>
>>>> I reviewed the configuration file, and there was nothing for mbox
>>> support.
>>>>
>>>> Am I missing something?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Scott
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