On Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 7:35:08 AM UTC+8, Virus Guy wrote:
> Shadow wrote:
> 
> >>So either
> >>
> >>(a) gmail doesn't like password-protected rar files
>  >
> >  It won't allow ANY password protected files (where it can't
> > see the name/size of each file) and it couldn't care less about your
> > security. It will allow unencrypted malware through, stuff with
> > multiple hits on Virustotal..
> 
> I used a hex editor on the rar file and changed the first 2 bytes. 
> Renamed the file from .rar to something else.  Resent the file as 
> attachment - and this time it went through.  The recipient restored the 
> first 2 bytes and unpacked the file normally.

You can rename the extension of a password protected file sent to Gmail and it
works to receive the file.

For a password protected file: MyFile.rar change to to MyFile.rar.ZYX will
work.

RL
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