On Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 19:54:18, Bill Landry wrote:
>> It wouldn't make any sense to allow un-passworded .zips
>> and block only password protected ones.
>
> Why not? If the zip files are not password protected, then you can
> effectively virus scan them. But if they are password protected, then you
> can't, so block them.
I suppose it depends upon your user base. People 'zip' files for a
variety of reasons:
* for the compression (hopefully exceeding the MIME expansion)
* to put lots of files into one handy package
* for privacy/security in case the e-mail is intercepted
If they put a high benefit on the last one they're not going to
understand why they have to lose that feature in order to continue to
receive archives.
Its all a lost cause anyway. Any idiot that's stupid enough to enter a
password to unzip a file they weren't expecting and run the contents is
stupid enough to follow directions to rename virus.zap to virus.zip
before unziping too.
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