Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [malware-list] scanner interface proposal was: [TALPA] Intro to a linux interface for on access scanning | From | douglas.leeder@sophos ... | Date | Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:54:34 +0100 |
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malware-list-bounces@dmesg.printk.net wrote on 2008-08-18 17:15:00:
> > On async notification we fire a message to everything that registered > > 'simultaneously.' On blocking we fire a message to everything in > > priority order and block until we get a response. That response should > > be of the form ALLOW/DENY and should include "mark result"/"don't mark > > result." > > No can do - you get stuck with recursive events with the virus checker > trying to stop the indexer from indexing a worm.
And the opposite approach can't work because the AV scanner + the index scanner need the HSM to do its work before they can scan.
I guess the only way it could work is to have levels: e.g. HSM agent is Level 1 AV scanner is Level 2 Index scanner is Level 3
When you register at Level N, you are excluded from all blocking/scanning at Levels >= N, but your ops are still passed to Level < N.
An example is a little hard to craft because HSM and indexing catch different operations. :-) -- Douglas Leeder
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