Quoting Dermot Daly (dermot.daly at itsmobile.com):
> Anti-Virus products cannot open the zip due to the fact that it is
> password protected (this is the reason behind the password protection).
Has anyone else noticed that checkers for MS-Windows viruses are slowly
being required to acquire all the intelligence traits of a competent
employee? Maybe it would be cheaper and easier to just hire the latter,
instead.
> Might be worth telling your users to not open any zip files that require
> a password - Most likely this will be bagle.
Oh, for pity's sake: There's _nothing_ conceivably dangerous about
opening a zip archive, unless you (or some badly designed software you
decide to use) thereafter take the amazingly stupid step of running an
executable contained within. So, Don't Do That, Then.
I worked for many years on MS-Windows without having problems with
malware through exercise of basic logic and taking responsibility for
processes I chose to run. Although I washed my hands of that OS for
other reasons, surely that approach still works.
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
