You're not only wrong about encryption preventing the spread of viruses, it could even be the other way around. If you're infected with a virus, and your encrypted file you're passing along to others is infected too, there's no way for an antivirus program to scan the file. It will sneak right through the network, and the last line of defence is the end-user opening the attached file.

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