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

[Dennis Peterson]

The libunrar license discourages vendors from building in libunrar support in 
product distributions. It is a long boring story.

dp

On 11/20/15 8:18 AM, Kees Theunissen wrote:
> 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.
>