From: Shadow 

On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 20:00:52 -0400, Virus Guy  wrote:

>I recently tried to send someone @ gmail a rar file as an attachment. 
>The file was about 10k.  It's a small (about 50 kb) xml file.  I used 
>winrar (offhand not sure what version I've got - there's no intuitive 
>way to see the version).  I used the password option and also encrypted 
>the file name.
>
>Gmail said this:
>
>============
>Your message was rejected by gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com for the 
>following reason:
>
>5.7.0 This message was blocked because its content presents a potential
>5.7.0 security issue. Please visit
>5.7.0  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BlockedMessage to review our
>5.7.0 message content and attachment content guidelines.
>=============
>
>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..
	[]'s
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