password for protected zips...again

Chris Yuzik chris at FRACTALWEB.COM
Mon Mar 8 16:08:47 GMT 2004


This is interesting. In an article on The Register
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36049.html), it states:

    Kaspersky Anti-Virus, for example, can now detect protected Zip
    archives, scan the email body for the password and then unpack and
    check the attachment for viruses. The new protection is been
    delivered alongside new AV signature downloads from the Russian vendor.

Anyone know if they try every word within the body of the email? Any way
we can do that too? Or does everyone still think it's a bad idea?

Cheers,
Chris



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