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[Julian Field]

At 19:03 03/03/2004, you wrote:
>Would it be possible for Mailscanner to unzip password protected zipfiles
>the same way some of the virus scanners do? Eg look for the text string in
>the message.
>
>It would make mailscanner work with f-prot to catch W32/Bagle.

They aren't doing exactly that, I believe. They are simply looking for
key-strings in the mail message or looking for details of the contents/size
of the zip file.

With the modern Zip encryption schemes, decrypting them is not trivial.
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