On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:19:50 +0100
Gianluigi Tiesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > I think you're still missing the point of this discussion. And the point
> > is that changing the line 233 of libclamav/filetypes.c to
> > "if(!(iscntrl(buf[i]) || isprint(buf[i])) || !internat[buf[i] & xff])"
> > you seriously broke the detection. That's all and the rest is off-topic.
> > 
> I agree with you about the OT, but still not agree about the code,
> we have scanned 1gb of various malware (all types also non ext)
> detected by clamav or not, and there was no false negatives in the scan.
> I've seen in svn it was commented, so yes better to leave it out ;)
> If you find some serious possible false negative problem, please
> tell me so I will be happy to remove the code.

Any international text that includes character(s) from range [0x80..0xff] will
be misclassified as CL_TYPE_UNKNOWN_DATA with your version of the line 233.
Please respect our time, I really spent too much time today explaining this
issue.

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