On Wednesday 18 February 2004 10:06 pm, Lucas Albers wrote:

> Thought of a great idea.
> Make it so the virus submittal page will scan the virus with clamscan.
> If it already detects it teh virus, it will reject it.

Er, this is what it already does.

> Unless the user explicitly tell web page to accept it a virus that has
> been detected with clamscan.

The same result can be achieved by encrypting the virus (eg: a passworded zip 
file) before submitting it.

> That should reduce the number of redundant submittals clamav receives.

That would be nice, yes, but people still submit some of the strangest things 
(eg zero-length files.....)

Good thinking, however.

Antony.

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inadvertently renders them relatively incompetent.

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