"Experts say .rar files carrying viruses have been sailing past commercial anti-virus products and finding their way into the mailboxes of users, who are often unfamiliar with the file format. Administrators who have seen .rar-packed malware say that none of the messages have been stopped by their anti-virus defenses."
Is there some licensing issue prohibiting them from unpacking the archives prior to scanning? Is this generally not a good idea? I believe that amavisd-new uses this technique for doing mail scanning. _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
