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Re: Another round of viruses - encrypted this time



On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:06:54PM -0600 or thereabouts, Todd Davis wrote:
> Unfortunately, since the virus scanner doesn't "know" the password, it
> can't open the zip and ends up letting the attachment through.  

Not problematic for me, I don't accept zip files on my servers, or pif
attachments, etc.. . <g> 
 
> We had one come in here that said it was from our email gateway.  It
> stated that there were changes in place and the user needed to follow
> the attached directions.  Another user received one that appeared to
> come from Yahoo support on her Yahoo account that stated that her
> account was being used as a spam relay.

interesting.. 

> In both cases I manually scanned the zip file which did not show any
> infections.  However, after unzipping the archive and scanning the
> enclosed executable the virus was reported.

very interesting.. good info to know. 

-- 
Gary

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