<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">There is a history of years and years
of antivirus products</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">choking on funky compressed files.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We had reports of quite a few AV products
crapping out on</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">the invalid zip files included with
our zip advisory from 2002:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0004/R7-0004.tgz</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0004/index.html</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I doubt they've all been fixed. Feel
free to try out your favorite</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">product on those files (there is a valid
gzipped tarball with</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">semivalid zip files containing the antivirus
test file).</font>