-=> Mocking Rick Collins to Kurt Wismer <=-
   
 KW> well what *I* think is that compressed files have little to do with
 KW> viral detection, and that av developers who include the capability to
 KW> scan within compressed files are wasting space providing decompression
 KW> routines when we already have the programs (or should) to decompress the
 KW> files ourselves (if we don't, how do we make use of the file we just
 KW> downloaded?)...
 RC> _We_ are not (all) "average users".
of course... no one is really an average user, just like no family has
the average number of kids...
 RC> And you don't need a
 RC> decompression program for self-extracting archives.  Indeed, the
 RC> "average user" wouldn't necessarily know that THISPROG.EXE was a
 RC> self-extracting archive as opposed to a "real" executable, so an AV
 RC> that can process it properly has a place in the world.
i could be wrong, but i think thdpro can generally handle
self-extracting archives as well as regular ones...
and if you use thdpro on ALL your downloads, instead of just the ones
that end in zip, arj, rar, or what have you, then thdpro could handle
this for you instead of duplicating the decompression code in the
scanner...
and having one modus operandi for all your downloads, instead of
multiple ones that depend on file extensions, is easier for even below
average users to remember...
and i'm just seeing this message today because the bbs i normally use to
access this conference has been unreliable...
... in AV, the code that gets control first wins... boot clean!...
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