On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 at 0:10:36 +0100, Alvaro Ur?a wrote: > [...] > I've got a zip (called mail.zip) which contains a file with a very long > name (called message_text.txt .pif) <-- with a lot of > spaces between '.txt' and '.pif', but clamav didn't detect it :S > > I'm a very newbie user of ClamAV and i'd like to know where could i find > some info about very long filenames or if ClamAV can't handle them or > whatever (a few weeks ago, i read on securityfocus about a similar > problem with hotmail antivirus, which couldn't handle the whole name of > a very long filename). > > It seems ClamAV scan message_text.txt what it isn't an executable and > let it go through :?
Does ClamAV detect a malware if you change the filename to some "normal", short name?... No? Then nothing shows that there is any problem with long filenames. -- Tomasz Papszun SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland | And it's only [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/iso/ | ones and zeros. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ClamAV.net/ A GPL virus scanner _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
