Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-04-18 Thread Jinwon Lee
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

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Jinwon Lee
Thanks for the responses. I am not a computer expert so I might not fully understand all that has been discussed but it sounds like ClamXav extracts(decompose?) archive files like zip, RAR and then scan. But with .dmg file it is uncertain that it does the same thing. It sounds like ClamXav is

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Jinwon Lee
Yes. It makes sense. On 29/03/2015, at 6:45 pm, Dennis Peterson denni...@inetnw.com wrote: On 3/28/15 10:43 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for that. I guess ‘Hash Value’ refers to the ClamAV identifying the .dmg as a known file that contains virus/es. Jinwon That was the case too

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Jinwon Lee
Thanks for that. I guess ‘Hash Value’ refers to the ClamAV identifying the .dmg as a known file that contains virus/es. Jinwon On 29/03/2015, at 2:48 pm, Al Varnell alvarn...@mac.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 06:35 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for the responses. I am

[clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-26 Thread Jinwon Lee
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