I have a feeling that that is what ClamXav is la > On 27/03/2015, at 8:10 pm, Al Varnell <alvarn...@mac.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:17PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> >> Forgot to include dmg files are as described when mounted - else they are >> disk images (cpio). I don't know what the clam product does with unmounted >> disk images. >> >> dp > > That’s correct. There have been a handful (nine) .dmg hash signatures quite > awhile ago and I’ve handled a couple of false positives, but there is no > attempt to check the image contents which would almost certainly require > mounting. I believe they are simply scanned as a generic file. > > -Al- > >> On 3/26/15 11:09 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: >>> The dmg files are logical structures. They are comprised of Unix >>> directories and files and clam doesn't need to treat them differently than >>> any other directory tree. if you have support compiled in for zip, RAR, >>> TAR, and several other archiving formats it should decompose them and scan >>> each of the the contents. You should be able to explore the log to see what >>> clamXav did while scanning. >>> >>> dp >>> >>> On 3/26/15 10:44 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I am a new member. >>>> >>>> I am a Mac user and so I use ClamXav to scan my files. >>>> >>>> My question is: >>>> >>>> ‘Does ClamXav scan what’s inside Compressed files like .RAR, .zip…. and >>>> Package files like .dmg?’ Because I feel ClamXav takes >>>> considerably longer to scan the extracted file/s compared to the >>>> compressed versions and wonder if it really scans them. >>>> >>>> Kind Regards >>>> Jinwon > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
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