In another escalation of the arms war, the latest variant of password-encrypted archive virus now distributes itself in an encrypted rar file, and the password is an attached bitmap to eliminate the possibility of using the password in the body of the message to open the archive in antivirus programs.
WinZip can't open rar, can it? That means very few desktop users will be able to get to the virus. I will gladly block all rar files since I have never seen them used for anything else than cracked games and so on.
At his rate, I give e-mail another year of usefulness. So much for the usefulness of attachments too. Thanks a lot spammers and virus writers. The good news is we'll have to replace SMTP with a better, more robust, and more secure system.
I'm sure Microsoft is ready to provide us with something new. ;-)
-- /Peter Bonivart
--Unix lovers do it in the Sun
Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.25-14, SpamAssassin 2.63 + DCC 1.2.30, ClamAV 0.67 + GMP 4.1.2
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