Tomasz Kojm wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:00:50 +0300
> Korchmenuk Nickolay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:43:24 +0500
>> Sergey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>> > And more:
>> > "Due to security reasons clamd only scans archives supported by
>> > libclamav and can't use external programs"
>> what about unrar from freebsd ports? could developers include some
>> code from unrarsrc-3.x.xm for rar v3 support?
> 
> Unfortunately the license of unrar-3 conflicts with the GPL.

I still don't understand what the big deal is with calling external
unpacking programs. Security risk? How? qmail-scanner does it. And
you don't have to enable it by default. And all of these silly rar
memory leak and licensing issues would evaporate.

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