Hello,

I have a problem to understand the report of clamscan tool applied on a tar file :


 ll /tmp/baert.tar (~250MB)
-rw-rw-r--  1 backuppc backuppc 282142720 Feb  2 17:55 /tmp/baert.tar

when I untar the file /tmp/baert.tar and scan the dirs/files :

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] fff]$ clamscan -i -r Local\ Settings/
Local Settings/Temp/ICD3.tmp/MediaTicketsInstaller.ocx: Trojan.Downloader.Mediatickets-3 FOUND Local Settings/Temp/ICD5.tmp/MediaTicketsInstaller.ocx: Trojan.Downloader.Mediatickets-3 FOUND Local Settings/Temp/ICD4.tmp/MediaTicketsInstaller.ocx: Trojan.Downloader.Mediatickets-3 FOUND Local Settings/Temp/ICD2.tmp/MediaTicketsInstaller.ocx: Trojan.Downloader.Mediatickets-3 FOUND Local Settings/Temp/ICD1.tmp/MediaTicketsInstaller.ocx: Trojan.Downloader.Mediatickets-3 FOUND

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 42108
Engine version: 0.88
Scanned directories: 85
Scanned files: 2411
Infected files: 5
Data scanned: 249.91 MB
Time: 50.934 sec (0 m 50 s)
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if I scan directly the tar file :



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 clamscan /tmp/baert.tar

LibClamAV Error: cli_untar: only standard TAR files are currently supported
/tmp/baert.tar: Trojan.Downloader.Mediatickets-3 FOUND

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 42108
Engine version: 0.88
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 1
Data scanned: 25.62 MB
Time: 5.589 sec (0 m 5 s)
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If I scan directly the tar file with the devel engine :

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[clamav-devel-latest]# clamscan/clamscan /tmp/baert.tar

/tmp/baert.tar: Trojan.Downloader.Mediatickets-3 FOUND

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 42108
Engine version: devel-20060202
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 1
Data scanned: 0.51 MB
Time: 2.427 sec (0 m 2 s)
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Somebody can explain me the output...

why the 'Data scanned' are so different ?

must I untar the archive before analyse it ?

must I use the devel version to analyse a tar file ?

thank in advance

regards

jmb



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