Re: Another round of viruses - encrypted this time

[Benjamin Story <bstory@bullets.net>]

We do allow zips, but in general our virus scanner removes .exe and
other similar types.  Unfortunately with the encrypted zips, it
doesn't see them.  Time to rewrite policy.


On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:15:42PM -0600, Gary wrote:
> 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. 
> 
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> Gary
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