[ILUG] [OT] Updated Sophos file [was: New Virus warning]

[Lars Hecking]

> A mod I made and submitted was to change the use of
> head:
> 
>  
>    ###################### test for binhex file #########################
>    ${head} -c 4096 $E | ${head} -4 | ${fgrep} ...
> 
> The original just did a ${head} $E | ${fgrep} ...
> On very large binary files with few line breaks,
> this often led to head using a hell of a lot of
> memory.  The head -c 4096 first chops off the
> first 4K and then we get the first 4 lines of this.
> This made a massive improvement for me.
> 
> I don't know if this has been updated in the official
> sources.

 [ In terms of security, features, and performance, you are *really* better
   off trying amavis-perl. I've had it running in production since its
   conception, and there is NO WAY I'm going back to official AMaViS. ]

 Well, the last official release is still the last official release.
 Being on the amavis developers mailing list, I'd count myself as an
 amavis developer, but there was no release to talk about after 0.2.0. pre6
 (or whatever).

 Rainer Link and Chris Mason have made substantial improvements to amavis,
 and if somebody mails me, I may even dig out a URL. I'd recommend that
 version over original amavis ...

 To my knowledge (I don't do IRC), there will be an amavis bugfix of sorts,
 and it'll be amavis 0.3.x perl. Bennett Todd has introduced and posted a
 possible alternative to amavis (check out the postfix-users archive), a
 filter type program written in C, but I doubt this will replace amavis.
 Implementing even RFC 822 is a fscking sh!tload of WORK. And then there's MIME ...