BUG? Silent Viruses and infected, password protected ZIPs

[Alex Neuman]

Unless the password can somehow be extracted from the message... but it
sounds like too much trouble anyway.

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Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:32 AM
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Subject: Re: BUG? Silent Viruses and infected, password protected ZIPs


>  When a password protected zip file comes through that also contains a
> virus

I don't think that a password protected archive can even be searched for
viruses. The AV doesn't have the password...

Shoval

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