On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 09:30:33PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 01:57:13PM -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > [...] > > Why not a plain ol' .zip? The greater the variety of nested > > envelopes, the greater > > I think it is because *.zip is (almost) useless for spreading viruses.
As an afterthought, I can see I should be more explicit... So, no I am not accusing. It is just after spending way too much time with computers I can see that we humans are, en masse, idiots. Therefor, if there is a file format helping with spreading malware, it will be choosen instead of one that helps inhibiting it. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
