ADMIN: zip files have been blocked

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I've had to block zip files at the mail server due to recent
>> virus activity. If you need to attach a file to any of the lists on this
>> site, use .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 format
>> Thanks
>
>* As $DEITY intended  :)

The latest worms are depending on social engineering (aka stupidity) to
propagate.  The latest crop of worms have been propagated largely in .zip
files, with the one that came out around the first of February using
``document.zip'' almost 50% of the ones we trapped.

For one of my early diatribes against using e-mail for file transfers:

	http://www.celestial.com/on-line-help/mailfiles.html

Bill
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