[Mimedefang] Configure uvscan to scan inside a zip file.

John McFarlane john.mcfarlane at clippard.com
Tue Jul 1 17:14:01 EDT 2003


I have had very good luck scanning the contents of zip files via uvscan.  I 
just updated the call to uvcan telling it to unzip if need be  :)


John McFarlane



> > Has anyone configured File::Scan to scan inside zip files for virus?
>
>I haven't, but you could always use File::MMagic in your filter to find
>application/x-zip files in MD's work directory, then use Archive::Zip
>to unzip them, then call (message|entity)_contains_virus_filescan()
>
>Be careful of zip files with a gig of 0s in them, extracting zip files
>that expand to be larger than the free space of your HD, etc.
>
>   Jason




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