[clamav-users] How to fix: "LibClamAV Warning: cli_scangpt: detected a non-protective MBR"

[Vincenzo Di Somma]

Hi Micah,
thanks a lot!

	vds

On 26/02/18 19:56, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) wrote:
> Good afternoon Vincenzo,
> 
> It looks as though ClamAV is parsing an image file containing a master boot record in the partition table that is non-protective:  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Protective_MBR_.28LBA_0.29
> 
> The warning isn’t necessarily something you need to fix.  It’s just letting you know that the partition table in the image file is a little odd.  Perhaps an older style of MBR.
> 
> We should probably change the print statement so it is a debug level log message instead of a warning, because there likely isn’t anything “wrong” with the file being scanned.
> 
> For now, I’d just say don’t worry about it.
> 
> -Micah
> 
> 
> Micah Snyder
> Software Engineer
> Talos
> Cisco Systems, Inc.
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 26, 2018, at 3:22 AM, Vincenzo Di Somma <vincenzo.di.somma at canonical.com<mailto:vincenzo.di.somma at canonical.com>> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> on Ubuntu 16.04, when I run:
> clamscan --max-filesize=3999M --phishing-scan-urls=no
> --max-scansize=3999M -i -r /home/xyz/
> 
> 
> I get this result:
> LibClamAV Warning: cli_scangpt: detected a non-protective MBR
> LibClamAV Warning: cli_scangpt: detected a non-protective MBR
> 
> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
> Known viruses: 6421244
> Engine version: 0.99.3
> Scanned directories: 20226
> Scanned files: 298523
> Infected files: 0
> Data scanned: 168867.80 MB
> Data read: 151491.15 MB (ratio 1.11:1)
> Time: 12342.499 sec (205 m 42 s)
> 
> I wonder how I can fix: "LibClamAV Warning: cli_scangpt: detected a
> non-protective MBR"
> 
> Thanks,
> vds
> 
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