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New Virus Attacks Via RAR Files

Posted by timothy on Monday February 21, 2005 @07:54AM from the not-in-debian-yet dept.

sscottsci writes "A new article at eWeek indicates that Virus writers are using .RAR files to bypass Filters and Anti-Virus systems to infect computers. Most anti-virus software cannot scan a .RAR file, and most firewalls do not block the extension yet."

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Well, duh. by baggachipz · 2005-02-21 08:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

.rar files can be self-extracting like zip files, so they pose the same security risk. I can't belive that nobody's exploited this until now.