On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Chris Barnes wrote: > Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have made a rudimentary patch (clean patch) against clamav 0.67 to > > mark all zip files containing password-protected (and hence > > unscannable) files as a virus type "SuspectEncrypted.Zip." > > Good job. Come to think of it, I can't think of a good reason why > anyone in my department would password protect a .zip file when sending > directly from 1 person to another. I suspect I'll keep this "temporary" > fix for good. >
Our mailserver is setup to reject certain file types as attachments (.com, .exe, .pif etc etc). Sometimes users have a legitimate need to get such files through, and the way they do it is to compress them and add a password to the zip archive so the content filter can't look inside. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems Administrator, Danmarks Idręts-Forbund / The Danish Sports Federation Please don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Please send plain text emails only http://www.expita.com/nomime.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
