Greetings,

In general terms, I'd say if something can read an encrypted archive without the password, then the encryption isn't very good. More likely, ClamAV reads the file without decrypting and doesn't find a pattern match, so it says it's ok - not the fault of the software, I wouldn't expect otherwise. A better test would be to take an AV test file, encrypt it, and run it through. I'll bet ClamAV doesn't find it.

--Bryan

--  Bryan Blackwell --
Unix Systems Engineer
br...@skiblack.com

On Nov 24, 2009, at 12:28 AM, ANANT S ATHAVALE wrote:

I was just testing an encrypted file using clamscan. Though it was password protected, it could scan and tell that it is not infected with Virus. Then in that case, is it OK to allow encrypted files?

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