Hey Scott,

This is a known bug in ClamAV 0.97. We've addressed and fixed it in 0.98.
Development is ongoing on 0.98 and there isn't a firm release date, yet.

Thanks,

Shawn


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Scott Ehrlich <[email protected]>wrote:

> Making more progress -
>
> using --scan-mail=yes and --max-scansize=3000M the mbox file is being
> "seen", but, as I discovered, and someone posted on a page somewhere, there
> is a discrepency between "Data scanned" and "Data read".  Data Scanned
> shows about 0.  Data Read shows a more appropriate large value (multi
> megabyte).
>
> I then tried to play with --max-filesize= 0, or 1, or 3000M, and now get
> "fmap - map allocation failed" for the mbox file.
>
> Thus, it appears to "see" the mbox file, but, based on the Data scanned
> field above, there is no strong evidence to claim it is being properly
> scanned.
>
> I also tried --tempdir=/path/to/lot-of-space and that didn't seem to do any
> good.
>
> Again, clamscan 0.97.7.
>
> Ideas are welcome.  Switches from successful test results also welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:01 PM, A K Varnell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Apr 10, 2013, at 4:59 PM, A K Varnell <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Apr 10, 2013, at 4:41 PM, Scott Ehrlich <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> You may be correct, though recalling my command-line options,
> including
> > >> verbose mode, the mbox file is very large, yet the scan took just a
> few
> > >> seconds.
> > >
> > > Then you'll need to change:
> > >
> > > --max-filesize=#n
> > >              Extract and scan at most #n kilobytes from each archive.
> > You may
> > >              pass the value in megabytes in format xM or xm,  where  x
> >  is  a
> > >              number.  This  option  protects  your system against DoS
> > attacks
> > >              (default: 25 MB, max: <4 GB)
> >
> > Sorry, wrong reference:
> >
> > --max-scansize=#n
> >               Extract and scan at most #n kilobytes from  each  scanned
> >  file.
> >               You  may pass the value in megabytes in format xM or xm,
> > where x
> >               is a number.  This  option  protects  your  system  against
> >  DoS
> >               attacks (default: 100 MB, max: <4 GB)
> >
> > -Al-
> >
> > >> ...
> > >> Scott
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Steven Morgan <
> [email protected]
> > >wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Scott,
> > >>>
> > >>> Looking at the code, I think the option is 'scan-mail'. It defaults
> as
> > yes,
> > >>> so you shouldn't need to do anything special, just clamscan
> > /path/to/mbox/.
> > >>>
> > >>> Let us know if that is not working.
> > >>>
> > >>> Steve
> > >>>
> > >>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Scott Ehrlich <
> > [email protected]
> > >>>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> I just compiled clamav 0.97.7 on SANS SIFT Linux.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Reviewing the README file and google, it appears that clamscan
> should
> > be
> > >>>> able to review/scan mbox files, but any attempt at using --mbox,
> such
> > as
> > >>>> clamscan --mbox or clamscan -d /tmp/virdir --mbox /path/to/mboxfile,
> > >>>> reports an error with the --mbox switch.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I reviewed the configuration file, and there was nothing for mbox
> > >>> support.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Am I missing something?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thanks.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Scott
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