BUG? Silent Viruses and infected, password protected ZIPs

[Hirsh, Joshua]

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

 You don't need to extract the archive to match a virus definition of the
zip file itself. Take a look at W32/Bagle-Zip from Sophos.

 Either way, it was a stupid mistake on my part ;-)

-Joshua

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