q# wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:26:06PM -0400, Jim Maul wrote:
>> I believe the OP is referring to a new technique being used by virus
>> writers where the email has a zip attachment which APPEARS to be 0
>> bytes (in the zip header) but when uncompressed, the file is in fact
>> not 0 bytes. There was a recent article about this somewhere but i
>> am unable to find the link ATM.
> 
> So, It could be nice if clamav can block those files, but on my
> -devel it 
> dosn't work:
> 
> Can I say it's a bug?

If I may suggest, corrupt .zip files (with unreasonable zip header values) 
should NOT be considered viruses by default.  If there is an option to turn 
this on, fine, but this is pushing the envelope a bit too far for me.

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