[clamav-users] how to configure to clamav daemon to reject file types

[Al Varnell]

I'm at a loss to understand why you would want to reject detection of over 99% of the malware commonly found on user platforms? Are there even signatures available for images?

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-Al-

> On Jul 30, 2019, at 10:23, Jeremy O'Leary via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Goal: only allow users to scan certain file types, such as images, PDFs, Libre/MS Office,...  thus rejecting scans of executables, scripts, zip files, gzip files, tar....
> 
> It appears that ClamAV can be configured to do this https://www.clamav.net/documents/clamav-file-types but could someone provide an example clamd.conf file snippet on the syntax?  Another mechanism to do this?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> + Jeremy
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