Google blocking 7zip

Richard Hopkins Richard.Hopkins at bristol.ac.uk
Fri Mar 28 11:19:22 GMT 2014


--On 28 March 2014 11:13 +0000 Gmail <codepope at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, there is another option and that is that something in your 7z
> archives is tripping the scanning... Google may have turned on some of
> the VirusTotal scanning. Have you tried dropping a smaller 7z archive
> into https://www.virustotal.com/ and seeing if it flags anything?

I'm confident that this isn't the problem.

One other (off list) has confirmed the exact same problem - send a 7z 
archive without a password set and there's no problem. Send the same 
archive with a password and it's blocked.

Richard

http://www.bris.ac.uk/infosec




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