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Embedded Virus - 2.Jul.2009 2:46:13 PM

tsin

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Did some testing of embedding a virus into a word document and sending it through mail security. Checked on virus total and neither norman or bitdender of course recognize it yet but based on content type (exe in a zip in a doc file) mail security should of blocked/quarantined it. I use other filters besides mail security and they picked it up and blocked/quarantined it. Is there a reason that mail security would not?

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RE: Embedded Virus - 3.Jul.2009 2:13:30 AM

Nicks

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Hi,

Which virus did you use in your testing? Was the word document a Word 2007 document? What application did you use to compress the word document? And was the archive password protected?

Thank you.

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