On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:25:31 +0100 Antony Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 18 June 2004 9:12 am, Simon Fishley wrote: > > > When you think about it though - does it really matter if you don't > > stop a virus in an encrypted archive file? Unless the recipient > > knows the password there is very little risk of damage. Not a very > > successful way of getting a virus to propagate is it? Unless the > > body of the message includes the password and the recipients does > > open the file. IMHO they deserve to be infected then :) > > Something tells me you haven't seen how effective the NetSky / > SomeFool virus was.... It was Bagle and not NetSky propagating in encrypted archives. ClamAV is able to detect it (in contrast to many commercial scanners) and there's no need to reeject all encrypted files. -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B //\ /\ Fri Jun 18 13:15:48 CEST 2004
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