Re: (nrd) Perl Virus Scanner

Mr. Muskrat++

I have one usability concern; running it on my home machine generated a 1.6MB text file, filled mostly with "file is not vulnerable" or "file has no size." Such a large amount of data to filter through makes scanning difficult.

For now, I'm just going to comment-out the line that prints the "nice" error messages. Perhaps a bell, or a Tk window signaling a potential virus would be a nice complement to the log file.

John J Reiser
newrisedesigns.com

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Re: Re: (nrd) Perl Virus Scanner by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Nov 20, 2002 at 15:37 UTC
This is a quick and dirty virus scanner. A proof of concept so to speak. I am mulling over the idea of expanding the idea... Have it create one text file per warning or error type and letting the user decide which ones get created. It will need to use one of the GetOpts modules for reading in command line parameters that override defaults. Any comments or suggestions for this project are greatly appreciated.	[reply]

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Re: Re: (nrd) Perl Virus Scanner
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Nov 20, 2002 at 15:37 UTC

This is a quick and dirty virus scanner. A proof of concept so to speak.

I am mulling over the idea of expanding the idea... Have it create one text file per warning or error type and letting the user decide which ones get created. It will need to use one of the GetOpts modules for reading in command line parameters that override defaults.

Any comments or suggestions for this project are greatly appreciated.

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