On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:49:36 +1100
Jonathan Trott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At the moment, if you put any virus inside an encrypted zip file, 
> clamav reports that there isn't a virus in there, which is a false 
> negative. Better to report that it couldn't be scanned than there 
> wasn't a virus in there.

No, that's definitely not a false negative. Password protected viruses
are not dangerous (and not interesting to us) as long as they don't
distribute the password. But anyway you should check the
--detect-encrypted option (CVS).

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