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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: SCAN 95b doesn't find MtE in EXE files (PC)
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:43:22 GMT
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- tck@bend.ucsd.edu (Kevin Marcus) writes:
-
- > Frisk, that is a very serious problem. It's quite analogous to the
- > reason why 100% detection of MtE based .COM infectors is necessary.
-
- Not quite. It is analogous to the problem for detecting viruses in
- self-compressed files. My own opinion is that instead of forcing
- everybody's scanner to be able to handle all the dozen
- self-compressors available, it would be much better to have the
- scanner only warn you about the compression and have a separate
- program that can strip the compression off.
-
- However, I agree that if somebody's scanner claims to be able to scan
- inside compressed executables, it should be able to do so any find all
- viruses that it normally can find in uncompressed files.
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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