On Thursday 16 Sep 2004 16:51, Vladimir Potapov wrote:
> Every day I have received about 30 email's with  pictures which have strange
> names( for example sevwqwso.gif, iwhfetsn.gif, qfwecqtf.jpg) and
> nonexistent's senders ([EMAIL PROTECTED],  [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Clamav don't
> find any viruses in this email's .
> Can Clamav find viruses in pictures?

It is possible that these pictures are linked to URLs so that if you click on them
from you are taken to a site which downloads a virus. ClamAV has experimental
code to handle this called "FOLLOWURLS".
Being experimental it is only in the test version available from snapshot and CVS,
and is not compiled in or enabled by default. To enable it you need to defined 
FOLLOWURLS
in mbox.c (about line 447) and either run clamscan with --mail-follow-urls or
if you're using clamd you will need to enable MailFollowURLs.

-Nigel

-- 
Nigel Horne. Arranger, Composer, Typesetter.
NJH Music, Barnsley, UK.  ICQ#20252325
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bandsman.co.uk


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