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originally posted by: TramperoJuan
originally posted by: butcherguy
originally posted by: TramperoJuan
originally posted by: FlyingFox
originally posted by: nomoredemsorreps
But an assassin, on the other hand, wouldn't care. He's already got his escape planned.
Oh, the assassin has to be a male?
Oh, the assassin has to be a female?
What does it matter?
The assassin could be a hermaphrodite.
...and thank you for making my point for me.
Context clues--they're there for a reason.
originally posted by: elouina
originally posted by: efabian
a reply to: elouina
Hmm, has anyone looked at what's in the files that you know of? Hope they are worth while. Some very good investigative work can be done with all these upcoming info that's about to arrive. The elections depend on it, lol.
OMG I have to leave for home. I have a treasure trove of files on tons of subjects! Its been done! Hillary is done! See me in PM.
originally posted by: efabian
originally posted by: elouina
originally posted by: efabian
a reply to: elouina
Hmm, has anyone looked at what's in the files that you know of? Hope they are worth while. Some very good investigative work can be done with all these upcoming info that's about to arrive. The elections depend on it, lol.
OMG I have to leave for home. I have a treasure trove of files on tons of subjects! Its been done! Hillary is done! See me in PM.
I'm seeing possible money laundering by Correct the Record... Bonner Group. PM.
(I say possible since some Tax loopholes may hold up in court and may limit legal accountability.)
originally posted by: BlueAjah
a reply to: nomoredemsorreps
Nah, not off topic, since there were instructions in the thread specific to accessing the information of the topic...
Maybe you are just not aware that different virus protection has different settings.
This article might help you:
Understanding Full Antivirus Decompression Layer Limits
The decompression layer limit specifies how many layers of nested compressed files and files with internal extractable objects, such as archive files (tar), MS Word and PowerPoint files, the internal antivirus scanner can decompress before it executes the virus scan. For example, if a message contains a compressed .zip file that contains another compressed .zip file, there are two compression layers. Decompressing both files requires a decompress layer setting of 2.
It is worth noting that during the transfer of data, some protocols use content encoding. The antivirus scan engine must decode this layer, which is considered a decompression level, before it scans for viruses.
A decompression layer could be a layer of a zipped file or an embedded object in packaged data. The antivirus engine scans each layer before unpacking the next layer, until it either reaches the user-configured decompress limit, reaches the device decompress layer limit, finds a virus or other malware, or decompresses the data completely, whichever comes first.
As the virus signature database becomes larger and the scan algorithms become more sophisticated, the scan engine has the ability to look deeper into the data for embedded malware. As a result, it can uncover more layers of compressed data. The Juniper Networks device's level of security is limited by decompress limit, which is based on the memory allocated to the security service. If a virus is not found within the decompress limit, the user has an option to either pass or drop the data.
This is just one example. Most high-end virus security has limits in order to preserve resources. Of course if you have the protection on your hard drive, it should scan each level as you open it. But if you are counting on an on-line service like virustotal.com, as the user in this thread did, without knowing their scan algorithms, there is no way to know how many levels it scanned. Then if you downloaded the file and started decompressing the levels, and someone did not have their own good virus protection on the computer, they could get burned.