[clamav-users] Clamav fails to detect exe within rar

[Kees Theunissen]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Steve basford wrote:

> Hi Alex... do you have libunrar


On Debian linux systems (and probably on most/all linux distrubutions
based on Debian) you need to install the "libclamunrar6" package from
the non-free/libs section.

This is _not_ mentioned in the main clamav package as a dependancy,
recommendation or even a suggestion. The strict debian policy rules
seems to dictate that the whole clamav package would otherwise classify
as non-free.

I guess that -as a result of this strict policy- quite a lot of
sysadmins are unaware of the fact that their virusscanner is
running without unrar support.


Regards,

Kees Theunissen.

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