Protection Engine detect multi part zip files PKzip as malformed.

Products

• Protection Engine for Cloud Services
• Protection Engine for NAS

Issue/Introduction

Symantec Protection Engine(SPE) identifies multi part zip file created with PKzip as Malformed.

This does not happen with Multi part zip file created by other zip utilities do not see the same behavior.

Cause

This is caused by the way PKzip structure the individual parts of the file.  SPE is not finding markers it expects to identify the file is a multi part file. 

Resolution

This is expected behavior at this time.