[pmg-devel] [PATCH pmg-api] close #2324 - improve docs on encrypted archives

Stoiko Ivanov s.ivanov at proxmox.com
Mon Aug 19 18:32:14 CEST 2019


The option for ClamAV 'Block Encrypted Archives and Documents', actually
triggers a Heuristic match from ClamAV, which is used by PMG to rais the
spam score of a message by the value of 'Heuristic Score' configured
at the 'Spam Detector' settings.

Since this has caused confusion (also for myself) a few times already, this
patch tries to address the issue by referring to the other option in the API
description of both properties

Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>
---
We could additionally consider renaming the GUI presentation of
'archiveblockencrypted' to 'Alert Encrypted Archives and Documents' in line
with ClamAVs recent change and deprecation of 'ArchiveBlockEncrypted'.

 src/PMG/Config.pm | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/PMG/Config.pm b/src/PMG/Config.pm
index 52dd7d0..2bffec8 100755
--- a/src/PMG/Config.pm
+++ b/src/PMG/Config.pm
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ sub properties {
 	    type => 'string',
 	},
 	clamav_heuristic_score => {
-	    description => "Score for ClamAV heuristics (Google Safe Browsing database, PhishingScanURLs, ...).",
+	    description => "Score for ClamAV heuristics (Encrypted Archives/Documents, Google Safe Browsing database, PhishingScanURLs, ...).",
 	    type => 'integer',
 	    minimum => 0,
 	    maximum => 1000,
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ sub properties {
 	    default => 'database.clamav.net',
 	},
 	archiveblockencrypted => {
-	    description => "Whether to block encrypted archives and documents. Mark encrypted archives and documents as viruses.",
+	    description => "Whether to mark encrypted archives and documents. Mark encrypted archives and documents as heuristic virus match. Heuristic matches are treated by the Spam Detector as raising the Spam Score.",
 	    type => 'boolean',
 	    default => 0,
 	},
-- 
2.20.1




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