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I'm at a loss to understand why you would want to reject detection of over 99% of the malware commonly found on user platforms? Are there even signatures available for images?

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-Al-

> On Jul 30, 2019, at 10:23, Jeremy O'Leary via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>
> ?
> Hi all,
>
> Goal: only allow users to scan certain file types, such as images, PDFs, Libre/MS Office,... thus rejecting scans of executables, scripts, zip files, gzip files, tar....
>
> It appears that ClamAV can be configured to do this https://www.clamav.net/documents/clamav-file-types but could someone provide an example clamd.conf file snippet on the syntax? Another mechanism to do this?
>
> thanks,
>
> + Jeremy
>
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Let me zoom out for a moment, ClamAV is part of a workflow that we are
trying to prevent users from working with certain file types, if ClamAV
would immediately throw a block, them then the chain of events would be
broken. Another person who replied directly pointed out my understanding
of file types was backwards in that rejecting in clamav meant not scan.

+ Jeremy

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 4:50 PM Al Varnell via clamav-users <
clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> External -
> [image: External Sender]
>
> I'm at a loss to understand why you would want to reject detection of over
> 99% of the malware commonly found on user platforms? Are there even
> signatures available for images?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> -Al-
>
> On Jul 30, 2019, at 10:23, Jeremy O'Leary via clamav-users <
> clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>
> ?
> Hi all,
>
> Goal: only allow users to scan certain file types, such as images, PDFs,
> Libre/MS Office,... thus rejecting scans of executables, scripts,
> zip files, gzip files, tar....
>
> It appears that ClamAV can be configured to do this
> https://www.clamav.net/documents/clamav-file-types but could someone
> provide an example clamd.conf file snippet on the syntax? Another
> mechanism to do this?
>
> thanks,
>
> + Jeremy
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> clamav-users mailing list
> clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
> https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
>
>
> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide:
> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq
>
> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> clamav-users mailing list
> clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
> https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
>
>
> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide:
> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq
>
> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
>