Re: [Clamav-users] New varient of password compressed virus

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

Michael Torrie wrote:

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.
 

An interesting fact on ChangeLog:

Thu Mar 11 21:50:32 CET 2004 (tk)
---------------------------------
 * libclamav: rar: added support for encrypted archive (Encrypted.RAR)
               detection


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.
 

Changing a well-known system is hard. I'm trying to replace telnet with 
ssh and
ftp with sftp for some time now, for a small community, and still 
haven't 100% successfull.
Mainly due to the fact that most user still use M$ Win and it don't have 
builtin clients
for ssh or sftp.

Regards,

Fajar



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