Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Al Varnell
I sent this out last night, but it must have been rejected for length or something, so I’ll remove the lengthy results of the third test and quotes to see if that works. -Al- == I ran some tests after my last posting to answer just this question, but results were mixed so I was wait

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Jinwon Lee
Thanks for the responses. I am not a computer expert so I might not fully understand all that has been discussed but it sounds like ClamXav extracts(decompose?) archive files like zip, RAR and then scan. But with .dmg file it is uncertain that it does the same thing. It sounds like ClamXav is

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Al Varnell
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 06:35 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: > > Thanks for the responses. I am not a computer expert so I might not fully > understand > all that has been discussed but it sounds like ClamXav extracts(decompose?) > archive files like zip, RAR and then scan. But with .dmg > file it is u

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/28/15 6:48 PM, Al Varnell wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 06:35 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for the responses. I am not a computer expert so I might not fully understand all that has been discussed but it sounds like ClamXav extracts(decompose?) archive files like zip, RAR and then scan.

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Jinwon Lee
Thanks for that. I guess ‘Hash Value’ refers to the ClamAV identifying the .dmg as a known file that contains virus/es. Jinwon > On 29/03/2015, at 2:48 pm, Al Varnell wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 06:35 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: >> >> Thanks for the responses. I am not a computer expert

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 3/28/15 10:43 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: Thanks for that. I guess ‘Hash Value’ refers to the ClamAV identifying the .dmg as a known file that contains virus/es. Jinwon That was the case too for password protected zip files. If you can't burst the contents you condemn the wrapper. dp ___

Re: [clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

2015-03-28 Thread Jinwon Lee
Yes. It makes sense. > On 29/03/2015, at 6:45 pm, Dennis Peterson wrote: > > On 3/28/15 10:43 PM, Jinwon Lee wrote: >> Thanks for that. I guess ‘Hash Value’ refers to the ClamAV identifying the >> .dmg as a known file that contains virus/es. >> >> Jinwon >> >> > That was the case too for p