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it's not identifying the files, it's using the db engine.

It's probably using it as a quarantine, so then the virus scanner picks up virus data from it's own temp files.




Does it have an binary header (.exe/.dll)?

Or better, does it match a sqlite signature? "The header string: "SQLite format 3\000" for example http://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html


I wonder if the issue I found sometime ago that segfaulted Firefox fixed stability problems for McAfee?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581946


I don't think it was mentioned anywhere that using SQLite was causing problems for the AV. Just that it was used internally and users were finding temp files.




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