Nmap Development: Re: compressing nmap executables and dlls with upx

[AgentSmith15 <agentsmith15 () gmail com>]

I couldn't see why AVs would flag UPX compression as suspicious. Yes, I know
viruses and bots have used UPX in the past to attempt to bypass AV's, but
this mindset isn't helping the AVs argument to flag all packed executables
as suspicious. UPX is open source and there are no attempts whatsoever to
try to prevent unpacking. So all AV's worth their salt should be able to
unpack and scan UPX files.

Also looking at the UPX site they say it's it doesn't require any extra
memory to run the compressed files.

Fyodor could put two links on his site, and let people choose what they
want.

Jonathan

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