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I doubt it still works but things I needed to get through email I would embed in word documents.

• mplewis9z 2y ago
  A modern word document file (.docx) is literally just a Zip archive with a special folder structure, so unless your company is scanning word document contents I can’t imagine there’s any issue.
• cogman10 2y ago
  Would probably still work. There's just too many formats which makes it very hard for a content blocker to really stop. I pity the programmer that has to decode the 1000 versions of xls to find the binary blob that could be a virus.
  • telgareith 2y ago
    1000? No. There's two. Openxml and the original xls. OpenXML can be scanned for issues like any other XML file. Alas, it's more difficult to get excel to accept that it shouldn't delete leading zeros than it is to check a spreadsheet's sus-o-scale.
    • cogman10 2y ago
      1000 is an over exaggeration, but it is not just 2 standards. xls morphed with every version of Microsoft Excel. MS Excel has pretty good backwards compatibility, but making an xls parser is notoriously hard because of the many differences between versions.