RE: sophie not detecting some viruses

sorry. you are right. I guess I'm so frustrated with
every libsavi behaving differently and sometimes
scanning or not some files, that I'm jumping to
conclusion too fast. 

--- Maciej Uhlig <[email protected]> wrote:
> it's still unclear to me.
> 
> SOPHOS_TYPE_U16 is unsigned short int and should
> accomodate 0..65535.
> 
> I enabled some printing in sophie_init.c and got
> even something like that:
> 
> NOTICE           : Option 'GrpArchiveUnpack' set to
> '3'
> 
> so SOPHOS_FAILED(hr) was false, i.e. SAVI didn't
> fail and accepted '3' as
> option value.
> 
> but still, sophie -c reports value of 1 .
> 
> more explanation?
> 
> Maciek
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Renato
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:30 PM
> > To: Discussion about Virge/Sophie/Trophie/...
> > Subject: RE: [vtools] sophie not detecting some
> viruses
> >
> >
> > It looks like every parameter of SAVIlib is either
> > SOPHOS_TYPE_U16 or SOPHOS_TYPE_U32 type. If you
> take a
> > look at sophie_init.c, you will see that the only
> one
> > that is SOPHOS_TYPE_U32, is "MaxRecursionDepth".
> >
> > I did an experiment and tried to pass '2' to
> > GrpArchiveUnpack using SOPHOS_TYPE_U32 type (
> > hardcoded ). Sophie complained about this
> parameter
> > and didn't let me do this, using, therefore the
> > default value, which is 2... then I concluded that
> '2'
> > should be equal to '0', since the only two
> possible
> > values you could set programatically is either 0
> or
> > 1... ( I don't understand how '2' could be a
> default
> > if it doesn't accept SOPHOS_TYPE_U32... )
> >
> > I hope I could make myself clear...
> >
> > --- Maciej Uhlig <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Vanja:
> > >
> > > > Now that you tried it, it looks so obvious :)
> > > >
> > > > It is enough to remove/rename /etc/sophie.savi
> > > file in order for Sophie to
> > > > use Sophos defaults (forgot that I've added
> that
> > > 'fallback' long time
> > > > ago). Detects the virus now.
> > > >
> > > > "sophie -c" will list the default options, but
> > > guessing the combinations
> > > > of options (to see which one screws up) will
> take
> > > some time.
> > >
> > > do you happen to know the meaning of all
> possible
> > > option values for Sophos
> > > options?
> > >
> > > this question is based on the fact Markus in his
> > > mail "more problems" used 0
> > > and 1 only,
> > > while Sophos default seems to be 2 (at least for
> > > group options), for
> > > instance:
> > >
> > > | GrpArchiveUnpack                  |    9 |   2
> |
> > >
> > > is 0 equal to 2, as Renato suggested, or more, 3
> is
> > > possible too (pure
> > > speculation :-))
> > >
> > > is anybody able to clarify this?
> 
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