[Mimedefang] survey: dropping password protected file

[Michal Jankowski]

"Michael Sims" <michaels at crye-leike.com> writes:

> We are seriously considering doing the same thing.  It seems to me that the
> virus writers are starting a shift from com|exe|bat|scr|pif to mainly zip
> because they know the former is more likely to be filtered out.  I'm getting
> really tired of fighting the zip virus of the day and am almost willing to
> surrender ZIP land to the viruses for good...

The problem is - we've been refusing com/exe/pif since 2002, but told
our users to switch to zip archives instead...

  MJ