effective scanning of rar files

[electricpete]

Through google I stumbled accross what looks to be a very interesting/useful file offered for free in the form of a 58MB "rar" file.

It seems almost too-good-to-be true and makes me suspicious of the motives of someone who offers this content for free.

I used Computer Associates eTrust EZ-Antivirus to scan the file and it shows no problems.

Based on successful scan, do you think this proves the file is safe to open?

Are there any other scan tools I should try for an rar file before I decompress it?

 

[BadBigBen]

You could try Ewido to scan the file aswell...

or, set up a Virtual PC and decompress it there, if it is bad then it will just take out your Virtual PC and not your REAL OS...

and if you are really that paranoid, then just delete it and you are on the safe side then...


Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[paulhthomas]

you could always download stinger from mcafee

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

put the file in a folder of it's own and set stinger to scan that folder only.

Cheers

Paul