Stuffit files (Macintosh specific)

[Julian Field]

At 19:18 07/11/2002, you wrote:
>I don't know of any virus that compresses its infected file before
>sending it to someone else.

If it did, it wouldn't be very "successful" as it would require a whole
series of actions by the user, not just a single click. The really dumb
users, who are most susceptible to the Social Engineering attack mechanisms
used by current viruses, wouldn't even know what to do with a zip file anyway.

The time you do need to be able to scan inside compressed archives is for
finding macro viruses.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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