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  • ZIP--and you're zapped [Zip file software flaw bypasses virus check, affects Windows, Mac, etc.]

    10/17/2002 11:55:35 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 5 replies · 271+ views
    ZDNet Australia ^ | October 17, 2002 | Dragos Ruiu
    You probably think your antivirus software can snare corrupt ZIP email attachments. But you'd be dead wrong. Say hello to a newly discovered--and dangerous--quirk in the ZIP file format. When everyone finds out about how this nasty new trait in ZIP file name handling can be exploited, something unseemly is going to hit the fan. Why? Because antivirus scanners can be conned, very simply, by ZIP files with excessively long names. And the code that makes it possible has been copied and incorporated by seemingly every big-name software company under the sun--not to mention its widespread use in security...