From: Virus Guy 

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.

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