[clamav-users] Input Stream Scanning for very large files

[Paul Kosinski]

"If you think there's a problem, why not deal with it before it gets
into your archives?"

Because maybe somebody else created the archive; and I believe there
have been cases where the archive itself exploited a flaw in the code
used to expand the archive.


On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 19:38:27 +0000 (GMT)
"G.W. Haywood" <clamav at jubileegroup.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2019, Kushal Kumar wrote:
> 
> Re: Input Stream Scanning for very large files
> 
> > ... how do you propose I should scan an archive of 100GB ( let's
> > say) size.
> 
> I wouldn't propose anything like that, because I'd call it madness.
> 
> If you think there's a problem, why not deal with it before it gets
> into your archives?
>