A virus inside a zip file inside another zip file of SAME name is not discovered

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Thu Aug 5 23:43:34 IST 2004


Hi!

> We received such a virus but luckily the user became suspicious at a zip
> being inside a zip file.

What version MailScanner are you using? I assume its a little older
version?

There were some changes recently to avoid this behaviour, and also most of
the virus scanning engines were updates to support this. Did you update
both recently ? (Your AV solution and MS ?)

Bye,
Raymond.

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