-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 dan wrote: > > 3) To scan on the backuppc server, you would need to uncompress them and > > remove the backuppc specific encoding, or teach your virus scanner how > > to decompress these types of files. Otherwise it will likely miss most > > infections anyway.
> 3)clamscan actually will search within compressed archives such as > zip,Z,rar,arj,ar,tgz files. it scans the zip and Z files > automatically and can be configured for many other compressed > archives. i use clamscan to scan all my windows machines and my > linux file servers and email server backups with every available > compression daily. I realise that clamscan can decompress zip/bzip2 etc files, but I doubt that it would understand the backuppc format files. As I understand, they are not a standard gzip of bzip format, there is additional data pre-pended to the file. Regards, Adam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHDGKgGyoxogrTyiURArDLAKDKBhlomfuP6TS44cougXU7sJvQeQCgh60P /Gw0oLeQn/xrycOM2bNrXdM= =rF7i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
