Re: RFC # $%&*@

["Laine Houghton" <laine@intergate.com>]

"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> I had an email bounced by a client's antiviral mailbot because it had a 
>> zip file attached, named blahblah.zipp, and one of the files inside it 
>> was a unix shell script that contained a series of files uuencoded as 
>> ASCII garble, one of those files would decode to blah.exe if the script 
>> were run.  I was absolutely gobsmacked that the bot found that file under 
>> 3 levels of obfuscation.
>
> What about BINSCII'ing it, then ROT13 the thing???  That might work....

Hell we could encode inside a bitmap and let the bots try to discern a 
picasso from a piccolo. It's over kill at the ISP level. I applaud their 
efforts to prevent idiots from pulling my finger but the above would 
demonstrate ego enhanced paranoia if used by an ISP.

Their current level of enthusiasm seems headed in that direction.