clamav message about message not in uuencoded format does not print file name

[David M. Karr]

Binary package hint: clamav

Ubuntu 8.10.

The nightly scan on my system reports exactly one line of output:

    LibClamAV Error: Message is not in uuencoded format

The issue I have is not whether the file is in uuencoded format or not, but that the report doesn't give me any indication of WHICH file is not in uuencoded format. My only hope of figuring out what file this refers to is running with "--verbose", which I hope will list all the files it's scanning (which will be many, on a full system scan), then I can narrow it down to the two files on each side of this message.

This message should print the name of the file in question.

% apt-cache policy clamav
clamav:
  Installed: 0.94.dfsg.2-1ubuntu0.1
  Candidate: 0.94.dfsg.2-1ubuntu0.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.94.dfsg.2-1ubuntu0.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.94.dfsg.1~rc1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages

[David M. Karr (davidmichaelkarr)]

I hope the fix didn't just fix that particular error message. There were others that lack the file name. For instance, in last night's scan, I got "LibClamAV Warning: RAR code not compiled-in".

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

"LibClamAV Warning: RAR code not compiled-in" is a legit warning. Due to
licensing restrictions we don't ship the unrar code in libclamav and clamav
no longer supports external scanning libraries.

In clamav 0.95 (about to be released) there are changes that should allow
us to have a usable unrar component in Multiverse so this should go away in
the next release.