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Finding Virus/trojan in rar file

themole · 2006-08-03 18:52:16

Does anyone know of any sw to scan a rar file to see if it contains a virus or trojan, without un raring the file? I recently got infected and suspect this was from a rar file which i decompressed.

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03-08-2006 7:52pm

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themole

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Does anyone know of any sw to scan a rar file to see if it contains a virus or trojan, without un raring the file?

I recently got infected and suspect this was from a rar file which i decompressed.

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#2 03-08-2006 9:17pm
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What AV have you got? Normally its not enabled to scan archives by default but you should be able to enabled it in configuration.

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#3 04-08-2006 4:04pm
Shane O' Malley

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When you uncompressed it, it should automatically have been scanned so if your AV was working correctly you should not have been infected.

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