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LDee
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_ 		10. January 2008 @ 09:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hello all,

Have some dubious ghost images which might the source of many malware related problems I've had, the question is can I do proper scans of gho and ghs files?

Avg and sophos and clamwin all seem to not actually scan the contents of the image since they finish in about a second.
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seb32
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_ 		10. January 2008 @ 18:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No, I don't believe that you can scan the files because the antivirus probably just treats it as a data file.
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LDee
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_ 		11. January 2008 @ 04:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Bummer, that would be a good thing for Norton to develop, a tool for malware scanning ghost images... ©
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LDee
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_ 		20. January 2008 @ 12:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Can I please get confirmation of this as a definite no?
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seb32
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_ 		20. January 2008 @ 12:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm not completely certain, but I believe that you'd have to restore the image to another HD, then scan that. I've looked over the Symantec article about Ghost images, and they expect you to do a full virus scan before backing it up, and they don't mention scanning the actual image, so I don't think you can just scan the file.
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ddp
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_ 		21. January 2008 @ 12:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
LDee, i think seb is right but not certain as i haven't come across that problem. do you have or can borrow a spare hd to put those images on to see if infected or not?
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LDee
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_ 		22. January 2008 @ 14:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks for replies.

We have disks to image and then scan, problem is that we have quite a lot of images. Suppose it will have to be the long way.
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goodswipe
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_ 		1. February 2008 @ 15:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yea, seb is right, any virus scanner will treat the image as a data file and you will not be able to detect the virus. Like they said, I'd restore the image onto a HDD and scan from there. ;)
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