[Novalug] ClamAV Question

John Franklin franklin@elfie.org
Mon Mar 30 16:36:20 EDT 2015


It's just a bunch of random data, essentially "dd if=/dev/random of=100MB-newark.bin bs=1024 count=102400"  Any virus signatures in there would only be evidence for the Infinite Monkey Theorem.

jf

On Mar 30, 2015, at 3:11 PM, "Roger W. Broseus via Novalug" <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:

> Interested in trying Linode, I went to their site and found link for a speed test. Clicking led to download of 100MB-newark.bin, a 105 MB file.
> 
> Being wary, I scanned it with ClamAV and it came out clean. But I still harbor questions, particularly given the size of this .bin file. (Maybe it just contains a bunch of data to upload for a speed test.)
> 
> Does ClamAV scan for malicious linux software?
> 
> Am I being too paranoid? (Wise cracks are welcome but might be OT. I'm NOT trolling.)
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