On 30.10.19 13:52, Graeme Fowler via clamav-users wrote:
> If you look back at the response from Al Varnell, you'll see that the decoded 
> signature has several parts, all joined together by wildcard matches.
> 
> It's quite plausible that the match is on the first few bytes, some bytes 
> several megabytes later, some more bytes several megabytes later still, and 
> then the last few bytes in the file.
> 
> If that's the case (and with a tar file that's reasonably plausible), then 
> bisecting/dissecting your file means that the signature will never match. It 
> will only match on the whole entire file.

Thank you very much for the explanation. Now I got it. ;-)

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