Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to alinuxinterfaceforonaccess scanning

[david]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, david@xxxxxxx wrote:

> again, libmalware.so is not referring to any specific body of code, it's 
> referring to the concept that the handling of open/mmap/read/etc and scanning 
> is done via a userspace library rather then by the kernel. if everyone can 
> agree on that concept then hashing out the details of _which_ library it gets 
> put in is a smaller detail.

one reason to layer scanners is that you could have one that just checks 
to see if the file was deployed from a OS package, if it was (and still 
has the same hash as the package manager thinks it should have) it sets a 
flag that other scanners could look for (if they see it they can skip 
scanning the file)

David Lang
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