RE: [Full-Disclosure] Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..

["Brent J. Nordquist" <b-nordquist@bethel.edu>]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:

> > For programmers who need to send around executables, please 
> > ZIP them up first.
> 
> Hint for the new generation of virusmakers: Zip thou virii ;)

Already done.  To name two recent ones, Mimail did this, and Sobig.e had a
ZIP variant (though it was sometimes hobbled with a .zi extension).  They
slipped right through our checks for Microsoft "unsafe extensions".  I'm
sure it's just a matter of time before this is commonplace.

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