Re: Macafee antivirus software

From: Brian (reply2me_at_thenewsgroup)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:14:00 -0500

"Roger Wilco" <yesman@yourservice.invalid> wrote
> Is this AV program able to read an e-mail message body for the password to
an attached zipfile? Why would it want to
> have that ability three years ago? Why they would want to now is also a
good question.

The one I am using is. Actually, the AV program doesn't look for the
password to the zip file, it just knows what the virus looks like in its
zipped form. This is why our AV program in the office will pass a new virus
for a couple of hours (it still gets caught by the failsafe) before it
starts recognizing them.