[Avcheck] Pre-announce: avcheck-0.9

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de
Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:57:51 +0200


On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 03:50:56PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:

> > 04D9215C00B  3857435 Fri Jul 12 11:52:00  Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de
> > (temporary failure. Command output: avcheck: unexpected AVP return code 1 (0x0131) (virus scan was incomplete) )
> 
> Heh, ok, now codes aren't so cryptic as before... ;)
> 
> Ok.  The more I think about all this, the more it seems a
> virusscanner should not attempt to look inside atchives in
> email.  Stop viruses in wild, but not more.

Sometimes our users archive a directory of *.doc files, and send them
via email. Ever so often a Word-Macrovirus is in the archive.

> Also, I think I should ignore this avp's return code in
> avcheck.

This is probably a good idea.

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