On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:41:46 -0400, Upscale wrote:

"Bill" wrote in message
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:27:36 +0000, John wrote:

What a load of ********

Really? Google thinks otherwise.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1756636,00.asp
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/defau...&virus_k=99455
http://secunia.com/virus_information/8102/beaglemmrar/

It's obvious you don't know what you're talking about. Currently, there's no
such thing as a Rar virus. There can be programs archived by Rar that might
contain a virus, but Rar compression itself cannot infect your computer.

No one in this thread has claimed the existence of a .rar virus. PDQ's
posting was factually correct, even if it amounted to little more than
wasted breath.

If
you're going to be warning people about Rar files, then you might as well
warn them about Zip, Cab and every other unpacked program in the market.

What are you smoking?

People SHOULD be warned about accepting files from any unknown source.
That's just "Computer Hygiene 90". If they are compressed archives, virus
detection gets tougher. The point that has been previously made is that
the anti-virus software was not examining the contents of the .rar files
and thus could miss viruses delivered through them.