Latest Bagle varient spreads in password protected rar files

[Rick Cooper]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Daniel Kleinsinger
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:26 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Latest Bagle varient spreads in password
> protected rar
> files
>
>
> Kevin Spicer wrote:
>
> > <>I'm blocking rars right now....
>
> What percentage of Windows users even have an unrar
> tool?  They're not
> trying to spread their viruses anymore, they're just
> trying to annoy us
> admins.
>

You might be surprised. Power archiver supports RAR, and split
.rar files are pretty much the defacto standard for large
binaries through news groups, especially multi-media because rar
has a special algorithm to apply to mutli-media files that does a
great job on compression.