On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 at 15:37:42 -0700, Scott Kveton wrote:
> > This is a problem with the zziplib library, We've already received some zip samples
> > that cause a segfault and are working on it. I think, you can safely disable 
> > ScanArchive
> > when using amavisd-new.
> 
> Doesn't that mean attachments won't be scanned then?  Doesn't that
> defeat the purpose of having a virus scanner?  I'm using Amavis-ng so it
> may already be doing the extraction of the archive so this may be a moot
> question.
> 
> Thanx for the quick reply,
> 
> Scott :-)

No, that doesn't mean so :-) .
Amavis itself decodes MIME, unpacks archives and so on.
Scott, on Friday you wrote that you used Amavis-new (most probably you
meant Amavisd-new (note "d")), now you're writing that Amavis-ng. AFAIK,
Amavis-ng is other piece of software than Amavisd-new. Anyway, all of
them perform decoding and unpacking.

If you want to be sure, the best way is to check it by yourself :-) .
With ScanArchive disabled, prepare a few test messages with some known
viruses (or EICAR test viruses) packed, zipped and so on, send them to
yourself and observe whether they are detected.

-- 
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