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Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux with archive RAR 5.0 file

Thanadon Somdee over 6 years ago

Hello,

I wonders if Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux can open or scan archive file type RAR version 5.0 or not?

Thank you

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0 DouglasLeeder over 6 years ago

I'm afraid I don't know if the engine supports unpacking RARv5

If it does sweep will require a -archive option to unpack archives.
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0 DouglasLeeder over 6 years ago

I'm afraid I don't know if the engine supports unpacking RARv5

If it does sweep will require a -archive option to unpack archives.
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0 Thanadon Somdee over 6 years ago in reply to DouglasLeeder

-archive option was added but not detected virus inside RAR
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0 QC over 6 years ago in reply to Thanadon Somdee

Hello Thanadon Somdee,

it's not the switch (whether -archive or -rar), 4.x rar-archives are unrared and the contents scanned, for whatever reason the scanner doesn't do this for 5.x.
Please note that his is more an inconvenience - real-time scanning will detect threats when the archive is unpacked. If you use sweep/savscan for e.g. uploads you'd have to unpack yourself and request a scan of the temporary directory.

Christian
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