We have a customer who sent an email through us that was a short text body with 
an Excel spreadsheet attachment. The attachment is about 988K and the entire 
email is about 1.3M. For some reason, when ClamAV parses the Excel file, it 
winds up creating about 2300 files and taking up about 1.3 *gig* of space. 
Because there are multiple copies, it's running the tmp out if space, causing 
the message to fail. 

Running debug, it says it thinks it "Matched signature for file type CAB-SFX at 
35233". Why would it think an Excel file is a cab file? I've opened it to 
check, and it really is just a spreadsheet of 12 pages. I've tried various 
options, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. It started happening in 
production on 0.95.3, but it does the same thing on 0.96. I have about 800k 
lines of debug output I can try to cut down if that will help. We can also 
contact the customer to see if they'll let us submit the file if you'd like to 
check it.

Any ideas on how to get this properly scanned would be appreciated.

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Brian Bebeau
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