"Bill" wrote in message

What are you smoking?

So you don't think a virus could be distributed through a Zip file or even a
cab file?

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.

It's nothing more than common sense to scan *ALL* incoming files. If someone
is too new to know about examining all compressed, archived files, then it's
doing a disservice to those very people zero to specifically zero in on Rar
files, suggesting they are more prone to contain a virus than other types of
archives.