ANNOUNCE: Stable 4.29.7 released

[Denis Beauchemin]

Le jeu 01/04/2004 à 10:19, Julian Field a écrit :
> At 15:14 01/04/2004, you wrote:
> >Julian,
> >
> >Looks like we were having a private conversation...  I reverted it back
> >to the list...
> >
> >Le jeu 01/04/2004 à 08:53, Julian Field a écrit :
> > > At 14:49 01/04/2004, you wrote:
> > > >Hello Julian,
> > > >
> > > >Le jeu 01/04/2004 à 04:15, Julian Field a écrit :
> > > > > I have just released stable 4.29.7.
> > > > >
> > > > > - Zip archives detection improved to work by content rather than 
> > filename.
> > > >
> > > >Does that mean that a zip archive will be detected and ist contents
> > > >scanned even if its name doesn't end in .zip?
> > >
> > > Yes.
> > >
> > > >I hope not because I've been telling people to rename their zip file to
> > > >something else to avoid the contents checks.  And since I don't use
> > > >filetype checks it works just fine.
> > >
> > > And one of the virus writers started writing zip files but ending their
> > > names in ".rar" in the knowledge that Winzip would still open them. So it
> > > had to go content-based, sorry.
> >
> >Bummer!  I was already blocking rar files...
> >
> >Could it be modified to use the File Command setting (that I have set to
> >blank) to decide if it reacts that way?
> 
> I need to test lots of files and I can detect zip files by just looking at 
> the first 4 bytes, which is *way* faster than running the file command and 
> parsing all its output.

I understand but could you omit this test if the file command setting is
set to blank (indicating that we don't want to do that sort of test)?

Denis
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