On 9/23/06, James Courtier-Dutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I know that clamav is designed to scan emails well, and it does a very
good job of that. It can also scan files on the HD. In order to improve
the scanning of files on the HD, has anyone considered building a
signature database of know virus free executables. clamav could then do
a checksum on each file, if the checksum matches a known good signature
for that filename, it can skip scanning it for viruses.
Wouldn't that database of virus-free executables grow too much over time?
One could also
then do reports of all the "unrecognised executables" and let the user
either manually accept an unknown executable,
What if the user accepts a virus as a 'virus-free' executable? Can we
trust the user to make that choice?
Edwin
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