Latest Bagle varient spreads in password protected rar files

Chris Yuzik chris at FRACTALWEB.COM
Mon Mar 15 16:24:05 GMT 2004


Kevin Spicer wrote:

>jar's are just zipfiles anyway, I'm not sure how many of the others can
>be password protected.  I'm pretty sure tar, tgz, bz2, gzip can't be.
>
Kevin,

You're right. Tar files can't be.

According to my archive program (IZArc), I can put a password on:
Blackhole (.bh)
JAR (.jar)
ZIP (.zip)

IZArc doesn't seem to support RAR files, but those can, of course, be
password protected as well. Same for ARJ.

Cheers,
Chris



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