[clamav-users] ClamXav and Compressed Files

[Al Varnell]

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-Al-

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:44PM, Jinwon Lee wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am a new member.
> 
> I am a Mac user and so I use ClamXav to scan my files.  
> 
> My question is: 
> 
> ‘Does ClamXav scan what’s inside Compressed files like .RAR,  .zip…. and Package files like .dmg?’    Because I feel ClamXav takes
> considerably longer to scan the extracted file/s compared to the compressed versions and wonder if it really scans them.
> 
> Kind Regards
> Jinwon