Re: [Clamav-users] How important are file extensions?

2008-09-19 Thread Alejandro Pedraza
>> 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 number

[Clamav-users] How important are file extensions?

2008-09-19 Thread Alejandro Pedraza
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 ? Thanks, Alejandro ___ Help