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		kissickas on Sept 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Copies of malware used by intelligence agencies to... Interesting note on Mongolia on the bottom. Also good to see that, at least for a time, Gmail was able to detect infected files (see the Mongolian feedback numbers 10-12) https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles4/database.html#feedback

cbhl on Sept 15, 2014 [–]

Hmm, I'm not sure if that's Gmail detecting an infected file. I'm pretty sure Gmail just blocks .exe and .bat files altogether (even in .zip archives).

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6590?hl=en

kissickas on Sept 15, 2014 | [–]

The file in question was a PDF - can it detect that?

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