Google blocking 7zip

[Roger Hayter]

Do gmail block encrypted files equipped with an 'inoffensive' extension?  Not claiming to be compressed or archived files? 

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Roger Hayter




On 28 Mar 2014, at 11:13, 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?
> 
> Dj
> 
> 
> On 28 March 2014 at 11:04:35, Richard Hopkins (richard.hopkins at bristol.ac.uk) wrote:
> 
>> --On 28 March 2014 10:30 +0000 Gmail <codepope at gmail.com> wrote: 
>> 
>> > One assumes this has expanded to .7z files and that the archive contains 
>> > one of the <dramatic music> banned extensions.  
>> 
>> Yes, I kind of assumed the same (that .7z had been added to the list, but 
>> the webpage hasn't been updated to reflect). 
>> 
>> However, *all* .7z (encrypted) archives are blocked, whether they contain 
>> "dangerous" attachments or not. 
>> 
>> I'm hoping that Google have made a mistake here which they will recognise 
>> and fix real soon. 
>> 
>> Cheers, 
>> 
>> Richard 
>> 
>> 
>> Richard 
>> 
>> http://www.bris.ac.uk/infosec