Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
> On 9/19/08, Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> fchan wrote:
>>  > I read your links and I understand possible DoS and other issues but
>>  > to repeat Alexandre's idea, why is there no error message for file
>>  > that are too large to notify the admin so they can adjust clamd.conf
>>  > or other action. Right now this infected file passes through like if
>>  > it was not infected which would be dangerous under certain conditions.
>>  > IMHO this file shouldn't pass through clamav without any error message.
>>  >
>>  > Frank
>>
>>
>> What would the error message say? There was no error in my view. The
>>  file was larger than what the OP was willing to test so it was not
>>  tested (if I understand it correctly). As such it is accepted at risk.
>>  It is the OP's job to decide what else to do with files that are
>>  accepted at risk. That may require yet another milter or other process
>>  spawned by procmail, for example.
> 
> Could not be an error message, just a warning, a informative message,
> saying that the file was not scanned and not that the file is
> clean....
> 
> In this case I'm using clamav on a file server to scan user files not 
> emails...

Doesn't matter - if you tell clamav to ignore certain files you are then 
obliged to use another method to test those files or ignore them. It 
would be rather trivial to write a script that finds large files and 
takes an action on them, but if you're going to scan them, then why 
prevent clamav from scanning them in the first place?

dp
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