Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:

> 
> The main purpose was, to keep ClamAV from scanning the entire, possibly
> large file (err, mail). And maybe even speed it up. It's good practice
> to bound your REs or wildcards anyway.
> 
> I wonder, if this indeed would speed up scanning, however small, of
> large-ish files. Or would the additional constraint actually impose more
> CPU cycles spent?

The sigs are full of unbound RE's. That's why scanning mbox mail files is 
pointless.

dp
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