Any league commisioners experience this?

[Sgt Tomorrow]

Trying to startup a league and this is what's happening...

I made a league file called eeeeeee to get the hang of importing and exporting the files and posting them online. When I export the league files I cannot zip them and send the zip to the web site. I keep getting the following message:

Upload Status C:\Program Files\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\export\eeeeeeee.zip (eeeeeeee.zip): Virus Detected; File not Uploaded! (Oversized.Zip FOUND)

I sent a support message to my hosting service and this is what I got:

The servers software is telling you why, it either is a virus or resembles one (could be anything within the zip, I once had a autoresponder script do the same to me), so you are going to have to unpack it then upload it................... or try to zip the zip. You are going to have to get creative because the server is going to do it's best to block it. Some things have the same signatures as a virus.

The files do upload individually but I can't zip them on the site and I cannot have league owners dowloading six files everyday, so this is not a viable solution.

Any ideas??

[gstelmack]

Nope, no such issue. You sure you don't actually have a virus that is infecting your zip files?

[willoconley]

The way I understand it the compression ratio of the zip is to high.

I get many false positives of Oversized.zip

* Whenever a file exceeds ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio (see clamd.conf man page), it’s considered a logic bomb and marked as Oversized.zip . Try increasing your ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio setting.

http://www.clamav.net/support/faq

What are using to zip the files with?

Maybe try something like this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/snazzybackup/
and compress at the lowest setting.

[Sgt Tomorrow]

Well this is where I am. I am not sure how to get the league files to the server without the error message. I will continue to work on this today...

Error message
I am running a football league. When I go to put my export files in my website I am getting the following error message from the site and cannot upload my files. There are 6 files in the zip totalling @813k, not very big and I have no limits set...

C:\Program Files\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\export\eeeeeeee.zip (eeeeeeee.zip): Virus Detected; File not Uploaded! (Oversized.Zip FOUND)
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User/Staff Follow-ups
support
03/09/2007 10:51
The servers software is telling you why, it either is a virus or resembles one (could be anything within the zip, I once had a autoresponder script do the same to me), so you are going to have to unpack it then upload it................... or try to zip the zip. You are going to have to get creative because the server is going to do it's best to block it. Some things have the same signatures as a virus.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]

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plyprowler
03/10/2007 5:20
EDIT I got the following advice from another website about loading zipfiles to my web page... can you give me a clue how to do this? Or even prevent my web page from checking my game export files?
"I get many false positives of Oversized.zip
Whenever a file exceeds ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio (see clamd.conf man page), it’s considered a logic bomb and marked as Oversized.zip . Try increasing your ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio setting."

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support
03/11/2007 05:48
Changing a security setting isn't something we are apt to do. Our settings are the same on every server and so far to this very day (5+ years), we have had only one issue with this...... so the chance of us changing this setting is going to be highly remote. But..... it's not my call either. We'll let you know once the owner makes his decision.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]

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[Shakes]

Never had that issue before

[beargrowlz]

Hrrm. Try changing the file extension before you upload it, and just make sure people change the file extension back after they download it.

That sounds like a very simplistic way to beat their security "feature", but it might just work.