On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:46:40 -0500
"Alejandro Pedraza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does clamav have a mechanism to find out a file is an archive without
> relying on its extension? For example does it know it has to unzip a
> zipped file even if its extension was changed to a random one
> different than .zip ?

ClamAV doesn't rely on file extensions. It uses magic numbers, special
signatures and heuristics to detect file types.

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