An extended version of Boyer-Moore (BMEXT) is implemented in ClamAV. The only difference lies in the use of Extended Bad Character Rule instead of the BCR used in original B-M algorithm. I searched the Internet for a paper related to BMEXT but found none.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Mohammed Al-Saleh <moealsa...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Can you please point me to a paper or any other source that could help in > understanding the Boyer-Moore implementation in ClamAV? > Is it very different from the original Boyer-Moore algorithm? > Any help is really appreciated. > > Thanks much, > > ~Moe > _______________________________________________ > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html > Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net > -- Vishrut Sharma Member of ACM, SDN, MSDNAA, NSR _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net
