On 2008-12-13 02:44, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Hi.  I am running ClamAV 0.94.2 on Ubuntu 8.10 (Desktop, 64-bit.)
>
> I have 29 GB .mxf file I want to check for viruses.
>
> When I run clamscan, it prints
>
>
> Scanned Files: 1
> Data Scanned: 0.00 MB
>
> Is this because ClamAV does not how to unwrap MXF files?
>   

First of all the file is larger than the default scan limit, and yes
secondly the format is unknown to ClamAV.

> (MXF files are described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXF)
>
> How are others handling this?  Is there an open-source utility for
> unwrapping MXF files?  I am wondering how I could integrate this with
> ClamAV.
>   

Can it contain only media files? If so, I don't think it can hide
viruses, it may hide some exploits for those media formats though.

Best regards,
--Edwin
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