On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 17:34 +0200, Scott Ryan wrote: > Does this setting determine the number of files that it will scan in > an archive or is it the amount of archived files that it will decompress and > scan inside an archive? no.
> Or maybe I have missed it completely and it means something else The compression ratio is the size of the original file divided by the size of the compressed file. So, if you had a 20gigabyte BMP file that was all the same color blue, you could probably compress that down to less than 1K, and the compression ratio would be ~ 20 million. That makes an attractive way to send mail bombs, but the MaxCompressionRatio allows you to stop that sort of thing from breaking your filter. -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX Austin Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
