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

[Bill Maidment]

Hmmmm....

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 disable
#          this limit (but you may increase it of course!)
ArchiveMaxFileSize 10M

So I assume that this refers to the size of the archive, rather than the 
size of the uncompressed file. It looks like I can reduce this to 100K 
or whatever.

Thanks
Bill

John Mason Jr. wrote:

>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 space.
>>    
>>
>
>Off the top of my head as I am not at work, you can  adjust parameters
>in clamd.conf.  I ran into a similar problem not to long ago.
>
>
>John 
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