On Wednesday 18 February 2004 10:06 pm, Lucas Albers wrote:
> Thought of a great idea.
> Make it so the virus submittal page will scan the virus with clamscan.
> If it already detects it teh virus, it will reject it.
Er, this is what it already does.
> Unless the user explicitly tell web page to accept it a virus that has
> been detected with clamscan.
The same result can be achieved by encrypting the virus (eg: a passworded zip
file) before submitting it.
> That should reduce the number of redundant submittals clamav receives.
That would be nice, yes, but people still submit some of the strangest things
(eg zero-length files.....)
Good thinking, however.
Antony.
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