Joao S Veiga wrote:
> Hi John, 
> 
>> think long and hard about the combination of payments and entities which are
>> reduced to using numeric IPs in URLs.  I suspect my business goes elsewhere.
> 
> Agreed :-), but the problem is (and what has caused most of my problems) that 
> if
> you have an email with the Subject: Pagamento in your mailbox file, then 
> receive
> another one with the numeric href, clamav will say your mailbox is infected - 
> it
> doesn't matter that the two parts of the signature are in different emails.

This problem is also being discussed in the "Getting line numbers" thread. The 
Email.FreeGame pattern demonstrates the very bad idea of using unanchored 
wildcard 
expressions in regex searches. If the software is not working on an extracted 
copy of 
each message found in the mbox then all such unanchored searches will crawl to 
the 
end of the mbox file with each invocation and in very many cases that is a lot 
of 
file to be crawling. If clamav is not treating mbox files as tables of rfc-822 
messages then it is a pretty poor choice of tools for scanning them.

dp
_______________________________________________
Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net
http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Reply via email to