Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:25:11 -0400 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: [malware-list] scanner interface proposal was: [TALPA] Intro to a linux interface for on access scanning |
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:15:24PM +0100, tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com wrote: > Then there is still a question of who allows some binary to declare itself > exempt. If that decision was a mistake, or it gets compromised security > will be off. A very powerful mechanism which must not be easily > accessible. With a good cache your worries go away even without a scheme > like this.
I have one word for you --- bittorrent. If you are downloading a very large torrent (say approximately a gigabyte), and it contains many pdf's that are say a few megabytes a piece, and things are coming in tribbles, having either a indexing scanner or an AV scanner wake up and rescan the file from scratch each time a tiny piece of the pdf comes in is going to eat your machine alive....
- Ted
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