corrupted files reported by sophie & SAVI

Well, I just wanted to see sophie/SAVI working in the large scale, so 
I modified some lines of code in order to get what follows:

- sophie doesn't stop after the first virus found
- sophie prints filename in case of SAVI error

I wanted to see what files SAVI treats as corrupted. I ordered sophie
to scan the whole filesystem(s) - several gigabytes of stuff.

I set GrpSuper to 1 - that's all. It was Sophos 3.77 release for
Solaris.

What I saw was fascinating.

SAVI reported as 'corrupted' SOME files (not all) of the following
"filetypes":

- ordinary text files
- dot files (.bash_history, .mosaicpid)
- Berkeley db files (*.db)
- gzip archives (*.tar.gz) - especially MySQL archives, Sun patches
- JIS files (from apache distro)

and more...

Of course I have not to add: the majority of these files could be 
succesfully visible under vi, could be decompressed by gzip, could
be unpacked by tar and so on.

I didn't investigate the problem in detail. I think there is a place
for several support cases.

This is a simple example only:

NOTICE           : Scanning file '/.../.mailboxlist'
WARNING          : Error: File corrupted, Sophie could not proceed.

# ls -l /.../.mailboxlist
-rw-r--r--   1  user   group          11 Jun  3  2002 /.../.mailboxlist
# cat /.../.mailboxlist
Trash
Sent
# 

Just imagine people sending stuff in their mail (and they do it!).
Then imagine how your sophie/SAVI duo works hard. And then imagine
the "corrupted" files may contain a virus. And we have a tendency
to pass the "corrupted" file to the user.

I came into conclusion we have to speak to Sophos and force them
to improve their product quality. I'm sure they know how to do it.

Maciek