-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Friday, October 18, 2002 4:04:09 PM RE: "I was just Eicar test virus testing, when....."
Greetings Nick, On Friday, October 18, 2002, 3:07:25 PM, you wrote: NA> Think of all the hundreds of thousands... or millions... of *.zip files NA> that are being opened each and every day. That presents a tremendous NA> opportunity for virus makers, yet one never hears of such exploits. Do the words "Not yet?" mean anything? As virus programmers develop and utilize new technology everyday I am positively sure that there will come the day when a "zip header" will be used to execute a file within the zip that will further contaminate a system based on simply opening the archive. This will also hold true for .rar archives, .ace archives, .pak archives and, very easily, .cab archives. As we progress with the daily virus technology I see it not long in coming. I progress in statement, regress in thread and therfore forsee my answer becoming off topic and being informed to take it offlist or to tbot by the moderator. - -- Regards, DG Raftery Sr. It's not a bug; it's an undocumented feature. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Business Security 6.0 iQA/AwUBPbBrgmGmTEg4iItaEQLcqwCguNwrrtvBP5rcc6aFlNzxnh1gPLUAnjCB is5LNYRlkzFIIDVNNwM6b2Ky =AgH+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
