RE: [Mimedefang] Using more than one virus scanner is a good idea.

2004-02-03 Thread Richard Laager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If the default is to use all available virus scanners then we should configure it to run the fastest virus scanners first. All daemonized versions, then file::scan, then the rest. That should speed up virus scanning, and is an easy tweak to

RE: [Mimedefang] Using more than one virus scanner is a good idea.

2004-02-03 Thread Jason Englander
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Richard Laager wrote: in case of outbreaks? Otherwise, it's faster than the daemonized virus scanners isn't it? Yes -- Jason Englander [EMAIL PROTECTED] 394F 7E02 C105 7268 777A 3F5A 0AC0 C618 0675 80CA ___ Visit

Re: [Mimedefang] Using more than one virus scanner is a good idea.

2004-02-03 Thread John Mason Jr.
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 19:14, Bill Maidment wrote: Guys We came across a problem using virus scanners on .zip files with the --unzip etc on clamav. One of our users decided to send a 127MB attachment zipped to 5MB. To cut a long story short, the mail server timed out/ran out of disk

Re: [Mimedefang] Using more than one virus scanner is a good idea.

2004-02-03 Thread Bill Maidment
H We had in /usr/local/etc/clamav.conf # Files in archives larger than this limit won't be scanned. # Value of 0 disables the limit. # WARNING: Due to the unrarlib implementation, whole files (one by one) in RAR # archives are decompressed to the memory. That's why never

[Mimedefang] Using more than one virus scanner is a good idea.

2004-01-28 Thread Kelson Vibber
Mydoom/Novarg/Worm.SCO seems to be really persistent. Despite using both ClamAV and manual checking (for known filenames or zips with the particular file size), one copy actually got through to my inbox this morning where it was caught by Norton Antivirus. (Not that I would have opened it, of

Re: [Mimedefang] Using more than one virus scanner is a good idea.

2004-01-28 Thread Elders Real Estate Ballina
Glad to see I wasn't the only one. I tracked back through the logs to see why it got through clamd and MD... trying to work out why one slipped into my inbox which the backup AV caught not that I would of opened it anyway. From the log ... The SA tagged a few things Milter delete: header

Re: [Mimedefang] Using more than one virus scanner is a good idea.

2004-01-28 Thread Bill Maidment
We've had a couple like this and it turned out that the message.zip file didn't contain the virus Maybe there's a hoax virus going around or someone has sanitised it along the way. We've also had malformed .zip files get through until we changed the clamav call to specifically do --unzip