❔ Is it possible to scan for viruses/abnormal text in .txt using c#?
I have tried to research if it possible but couldnt find any
EA text file can't exactly contain a virus
Toh
Thow about scanning for abnormal text in the file
EWhat do you consider "abnormal"?
Tsmth like jumble up words and number
Td41d8cd98f0d
EWhat makes that abnormal? What if that's a GUID? What if it's a hash?
Tif not is there any way to scan the txt file
EScan it for what?
EYou need to have a clear goal
Tlike random hashes that is not suppose to be in the file
Tas it is a text file
EWhy not? I can store anything i want in a text file, no?
Ttrue
EIf i choose to store "d41d8cd98f0d" in a file, because that has some significance to me, then i will do that
Tbut what if you dont want that
Tlike in a text from an email
Ean email can contain keys like that as well. perhaps for verifying timestamps
Eso basically, what you wanna try and do is check whether a text has only english words, or something?
Tyes
Ethat's both not easy (as in, incredibly difficult, actually), and perhaps not even possible
Tman sry for not explaining it well
Tnvr struck my mind
Eif we're talking emails: a person's name doesn't need to be an english word
Eif the person is foreign, for example
Tjust ignore, isolate and delete the file
AWas this issue resolved? If so, run
/close- otherwise I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.