AV software can warn the user "this is very very suspect attachment". As I remember, my friends don't usually send me encrypted zip files with the size identical to viruses. :-)
---------------------------------------------------------- Mgr.(MSc.) Ales Keprt (also known as Aley) [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** www.keprt.cz *** ICQ: 82357182 Dept. of Computer Science, VSB Technical University Ostrava, CZ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.cs.vsb.cz ---------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Cooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 8:49 PM Subject: RE: :-) > Yeah, this is the latest greatest trick they're using to get around AV > software. > > Zip files are encrypted when they're password protected, so they generate a > random key, and zip it up using it. They then get the user to decrypt it > manually. The AV software can't do anything about it unless it can figure > out the key. > > Sneaky. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Edwin Blink > This is what my providers email scanner said: > > X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean > > But it certainly is not ! I extracted the contents: gdbyygtd.scr and ran > Mcafees online freescan It did not see the zip file as a virus risk But the > extracted contents as: > > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The file has a folder icon. To let you think is a folder and double click > it and No I did not open or double click it. > > Edwin > > > > >
