[Mimedefang] New .zip virus?

[Brent J. Nordquist]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Rick Mallett <rmallett at ccs.carleton.ca> wrote:

> It uses "unzip | wc -c" to check the file size and only discards if it
> is in a smaller size range (22528-22530)

The only thing that's been holding me back from doing that here, or
implementing similar measures (e.g. unzip and see if there's only a .scr
or .pif inside), is the fear of a "10 gigabytes of 0's" DoS ZIP file.

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