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from: Shadow
date: 2018-10-11 03:41:00
subject: Re: Does gmail not accept

From: Shadow 

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 01:45:22 -0700 (PDT), RayLopez99
 wrote:

>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.

	Good to know.
	TY
	Z-Zip will open files with unknown extensions by content, so
will offer to open MyFile.rar.ZYX or MyFile.rar.aaa on a right click.
But not MyFile.rar.txt or MyFile.rar.wav.
	Winrar uses extensions, so no option to open the file.
	Google's AI must be braindead.
	[]'s
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