[Mimedefang] password protected zip archives and virus checking

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Mon Mar 4 11:53:04 EST 2002


On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Barry Byrne wrote:

> Using sophos to scan for viruses, password protected zip files get flagged
> as viruses. The warning in the mail/quarantine report looks like:

Doesn't sophos return a different return code for password-protected
files than for non-password-protected files?  How are you calling
the entity_contains_virus_sophos() routine?

If it turns out that Sophos returns the same code for password-protected
files as for viruses, then we're SOL...

Regards,

David.




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