full-disclosure - Z***ING EMAILS !

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From: vdongen at hetisw.nl (I.R. van Dongen)
Subject: Z***ING EMAILS !

http-equiv@...ite.com wrote:

>Saturday, March 06, 2004
>
>The seems to be a lot of excitement at the moment regarding .zip 
>files and emails. What if the actual .zip file is the email or 
>the email is the actual .zip file:
>
>MIME-Version: 1.0 
>Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed                
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
>X-Source: 06.03.04 http://www.malware.com
>
>PK...   .   ?.?S?.?.  D   .   malware.exe??[L.f.?_
Qk. 
>.?..?#?002
?????..?, ??U.lQ
>
>
>Working example:
>
>http://www.malware.com/eml.zip
>  
>

How would this work?
afaik no emailsoftware will unpack a zip archive by default.
Even then, It has to be passwordless zip, and the zip will be unpacked 
by the virusscanner too.

Gr,

Ivo