[Mimedefang] Dealing with encrypted zip viruses

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue May 4 16:43:34 EDT 2004


On Tue, 4 May 2004, Kelson Vibber wrote:

> So I thought I'd ask: how are other people dealing with these?  Do you ban
> all encrypted zip files, do you quarantine, do you use other techniques?

We permit encrypted zip files if there is no .exe, .pif, etc. in them.
The Archive::Zip perl module can look inside zip files, and even list
the filenames in encrypted zips.

Regards,

David.



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