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I have the new Members' December edition and just ran the Klamav anti-virus for the first time and it found 4 instances of 'Zip.ExceededFilesLimit'.
I have googled for it and get conflicting results... some suggestions it it just the virus samples in the program others seem to suggest it could be more serious.
(e.g. RAR.ExceededFileSize, Zip.ExceededFilesLimit) if max-files, max-space, or max-recursion is reached.
it doesn't mean there's a virus it meas that clamav has a limit of how many files or how many levels to check in a archive and that limit has been reached.
The above explanation does hold water. If you open the options button on Klamav, you will see at the top, the max limits are user configurable, and the "mark as virus if limits exeeded", or "mark as virus if encripted" is an option the user can define.
I ran into this same scenario in Windows. Scanned a file that I had on a backup disk with AVG, AVG said had a virus. I know for a fact it did not. It was a text file I created, encrypted and compressed. It is just a failsafe false positive type thing.
The four directories 'found' had large numbers of compressed sub-directories probably containing more of the same eg two of them were mozilla installation folders.
I'll look closely at that. I don't think I need to worry about the files I found, though. One of the names I have seen re-assuring us (somewhere in my google) is that of the guy (which I can't remember now) who seems to find all the potential security breaches in Mandriva. When I am downloading security updates I seem to see his name on 99%.
After waiting a day or so for a response here, I asked for assurance from Mandriva club security forum and got the same story there.
It's just a sensible precaution in case a virus is hidden inside a compressed file, although it would seem to me reasonable to give a more precise warning rather than a statement that you have a virus.
Hey, new toy to stress us out! Grisoft released a new product a few hours ago, avg free for linux. This one is for the home user. They even have a mandriva rpm to download, denoted by the "mdk" in file name. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/20/lng/us/tpl/v5
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