quiet here

[Rob Sterenborg]

>> Up until now I had never even heard of 7zip.  I just tested F-Prot
>> and ClamAV against an archive with a virus in it.  Neither detected
>> the virus inside.  So, isn't it just a matter of time before viruses
>> start spreading in this format?   If so I think you're going to be
>> compelled to support the scanning of this format.

> But if no-one has the software for reading this format already, they
> aren't any harm. 

Several Windows (and quite often we try to protect the users of this OS
;-)) compression programs can read the 7-Zip format, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers#Operating_syst
em_support and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers#Archive_format
_support.

7-Zip has been around for some time now (2000 or 2001). Perhaps it's
going to be used more often now but I haven't seen much of it so far.
(That doesn't mean I'm against MS supporting this format.)


Grts,
Rob