Stupid answer from McAfee...

Tony Finch dot at DOTAT.AT
Thu Mar 4 10:26:02 GMT 2004


Denis Beauchemin <Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA> wrote:
>
>In other words, they say it is a technical problem that prevents their
>command-line utility to detect password-protected zip files, but they
>also say that their small cleaning program (Stinger) and their email
>scanning software are able to detect them!

The extra.dat files from the webimmune site enable the command-line
scanner to identify them too.

>Looks like they want to restrict this capability to some of their
>products...  a very bad decision!!!

Aaargh.

Tony.
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