[Avcheck] drweb errors

liedekef@pandora.be liedekef@pandora.be
Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:20:59 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Michael Tokarev wrote:

> > 1) sometimes I see in /var/spool/drweb/run/log the following lines:
> >
> >    /tst/4069.tmp/Chloe jones.pps - read error!
> >    /tst/17130.tmp/020402SpEekloActieveBurgers.doc - read error!
> >
> >    Does anybody know a reason for these?
>
> DrWeb treats invalid structure of .doc, .xls etc files as read errors.
> Avcheck just ignores this condition as a workaround (there is no harm
> if *real* read error will happen since it will be seen by avcheck too).
> This is a known behaviour -- not to say correct but known.
>
> > 2) Sometimes people get a mailer-daemon with the following error message:
> >
> >  <liedekef@pandora.be> temporary failure. Command output: avcheck:
> >     unexpected DrWeb return code 16384 (0x4000)
>
> 0x4000 means that a file compression rate is too high.  Avcheck-0.8
> (still not announced but released a long time ago) rejects such mails
> like infected.  You may also try to play some games with MaxCompressionRatio
> in drweb.ini.
>

Tx for the clear response Michael!

Franky