Is this a new one?

[Mark & Juanita]

One of the other things virus writers do is delve into various aspects of "social engineering" to attempt to get people to open their dreck.

[Mike Marlow]

Well John - fancy meeting you here.

[Renata]

Actually, McAfee does have an option to scan inside zip files.

Renata

[John McCoy]

"Mike Marlow" wrote in news:oljkc.7751$g31.3973 @newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net:

Great minds think alike, or something :-)

John

[bridger]

as can most virus scanners. however, if the zip file is password protected the scan will fail. some viruses have been circulated lately inside of locked zip files, with the password attached in a readable text file. it's a bit of that social engineering... get the user to run the virus code.