[Mimedefang] Problem scanning multiple attachments with Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux Workstation 5.0.2.0

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Thu Apr 1 21:29:04 EST 2004


On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Ernst-Paul ten Brinke wrote:

> Let's say you send a message with an attachment a.zip en b.zip and a.zip
> contains a virus and b.zip not.

[...]

> Calling aveclient with multiple files or in this case with a * returns only
> the scan return code of the last MIME part scanned.

Wow.  aveclient is badly broken, then; I recommend switching to a different
virus scanner.  Otherwise, you'll have to call entity_contains_virus
for each part, and that's a waste of time.

Regards,

David.



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