Spammers have found a way through all the security processes in Gmail that protect users from receiving emails with viruses. The new way round is by sending virus as password protected attachments that Gmail; the content of which it cannot read. Amit Agarwal reports of this as he received mails that carried attachments with viruses that were password protected, one advice to follow this is to make sure you check out attachments by forwarding such mails to scan@virustotal.com to make sure it isn’t carrying a virus.
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