Comment by koolba
6 hours ago
And if you thought malware hiding in a mess of files was bad, just wait till you see it in two layers of container files.
6 hours ago
And if you thought malware hiding in a mess of files was bad, just wait till you see it in two layers of container files.
Or worse yet, the performance load of anti-malware software that has to look inside ZIP files.
Look, most of us realized around 2004 or so that if you had a choice between Norton and the virus you would pick the virus. In the Windows world we standardized around Defender because there is some bound on how much Defender degrades the performance of your machine which was not the case with competitive antivirus software.
I've done a few projects which involved getting container file formats like ZIP and PDF (e.g. you know it's a graph of resources in which some of those resources are containers that contain more resources, right?) and now that I think of it you ought to be able to virus scan ZIP files quickly and intelligently but the whole problem with the antivirus industry is that nobody ever considers the cost.
Now we'll have to encrypt the files to prevent the performance hit of antivirus peeking inside.
Oh, wait...