[Feature-Request] - Security and filters in options

arne_bab · #1 (**permalink**) November 12th, 2008

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Originally Posted by Tzepesch

If you let the scanner only be activated, then the file is down, then you won't have a scanner always scanning the folder. (Difference is, to let phex trigger the scanner, and not have a seperate scanner to moniter the whole time)

You could just set the scanner only on the download folder.

Once Phex finishes the download and moves the file there, the Scanner activates and checks it.

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And It would be possible to scan the chunks too, because they can have early signs of known infections. But this will be difficult to do, because phex is already using the chunks.

Is there already a scanner which can scan arbitrary file fragments?

If simply every user would have a scanner running on the download folder, infected files wouldn't be reshared, so they wouldn't spread (Phex only answers searches for complete files).

The download mesh still enables sharing incomplete files, but only when there is another source with the complete file so people find out about teh file in the first place.

Also normally in Gnutella your download is about 10 times as fast as your upload, so you only share 10% of teh file till you complete the download, and after completion the cirus scanner kicks in. For the network that's almost like scanning a fragment with 10% the size of the original file.