From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible viri in tarballs?
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 10:16:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140206151636.GB19884@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201402051547.08127.gheskett@wdtv.com>
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 03:47:07PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >If the file was had any amount of XML or XHTML2, that would be markup
> >crap. But some Twiki style ascii markup is hardly a problem -- it
> >looks just fine when viewed in a text reader.
>
> I was using mc's f3 function. I agree, it looks fine in less, or even
> gedit. I am going to filter it, you do as you feel is correct.
Well, in any case, if a couple of lines which are prefixed by
asterisks where all the characters are otherwise english words in a
full ASCII text gets declared "malware", that's probably be best
demonstratoin about why many Anti-Virus companies are selling pure
snake oil, and someone should be demanding their money back. :-)
- Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-06 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-05 14:15 Gene Heskett
2014-02-05 14:35 ` Mihai Donțu
2014-02-05 15:10 ` Gene Heskett
2014-02-05 18:24 ` Gene Heskett
2014-02-05 19:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-05 20:08 ` Roger Heflin
2014-02-05 20:49 ` Gene Heskett
2014-02-05 20:47 ` Gene Heskett
2014-02-06 15:16 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
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