Reply to post: Re: Cunning ?

Near-undetectable malware linked to Russia's Cozy Bear

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Re: Cunning ?

It's not a disk. It's a file. Whether it's called .iso, .zip or .tar, it's just an archive of files whose content can be extracted. The OS just makes it easy. And there's no special privilege attached to the content.

This appears to mean that antivirus are less careful about scanning the content of .iso files than .zip files, which sounds rather dumb of them.

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