David Noel wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to open a 5.4 Mb .rar photo file I've received? No luck 
with Stuffit Expander, Photoshop etc. TIA.
IT <http://it.slashdot.org/>: New Virus Attacks Via RAR Files Security <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=172> | *Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 22, @06:24*
*from the not-in-debian-yet dept.*
sscottsci <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes /"A new article at eWeek <http://www.eweek.com/> indicates that Virus writers are using .RAR files to bypass Filters and Anti-Virus <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1756636,00.asp> systems to infect computers. Most anti-virus software cannot scan a .RAR file, and most firewalls do not block the extension yet."/

   * http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/22/0151213&tid=95
   * http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1756636,00.asp


Seems like too much of a coincidence...

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