Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this but it seemed more of a development question than a user one.
I have been testing clamav on OSX and noticed that it does not scan Mac resource forks, only data forks - which is to be expected as it is a unix-level port, and most of the ways to get at resource forks are presumably in different file access API's (carbon/cocoa?). Several questions arise from that: 1. Does anyone have any plans to add this ability? I think I am right in saying that it could be as simple as scanning "file/rsrc" as well as "file" on OSX systems. This could be included by an #ifdef at compile time maybe? 2. I don't think any of the classic old Mac resource viruses (MDBF, MDEF etc) are in the clamav virus db. Does anyone have access to these for testing purposes, and to get signatures for them? If not, how could one go about making sure this worked? 3. I saw on the user list that someone had created an AppleScript studio gui front-end for OSX to run clamav. I was looking for one because I was considering writing one myself in fact! I would think that without resource fork scanning that clamav would be reasonably useless on Mac. Anyone have any further thoughts or opinions on that? Should there be something in the documentation explaining to OSX users that it probably isn't a good replacement for Virex etc, at least not yet!? regards, Gavin -- Gavin Aiken Chief Technical Engineer Digital Technology International Limited ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Clamav-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-devel
