On Saturday 16 August 2003 8:26 pm, Kevin Spicer wrote:

> > sigtool -c "clamscan --stdout" -f message.zip -s "message"
>
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure you can't use
> sigtool to extract the virus signature from a zip (no matter what
> scanner you use).  The zip itself is not infected, you need to unzip the
> file and extract the signature from the infected file within.

I assume the original poster suspected it was a virus which just happened to 
have a .zip extension - not realising that it really is a genuine zip file, 
with an infected .html inside.

> Quite why you're trying to do this however I can't see, as you've already
> proven that clamscan can detect the infection.

Indeed.

Antony.

-- 

I vote "no" to this proposal to form a committee to investigate whether we 
should or should not hold a ballot on whether to vote yet.


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