Well yep there is, but the original is kinda old. The first alert was in 1999
I am afraid that I was aware of the vulnerability long before then. Back in the days of Win3.1x actually. WinZip had a "feature" that allowed you to compress an executable such that it would run automatically on unzipping Naturally, it occurred to me that the executable could be malware so I have always been very careful with zipped files. Remember I am going back to the days when a lot of AVs couldn't scan within compressed files.

I did have some (free) software that monitored Outlook, Outlook Express and WinZip and prevented executables from automatically running from within them. You have to download/save the file/folder and run the executable manually

I will try to find a link and post it for you. Sorry you will have to cut & paste the address as edited links don't run automatically when you edit them into a post

Cheers

EDIT: http://www.mo-ware.com/freeware/index.html

ALSO: http://www.analogx.com/welcome.htm

Have a look around, there is a variety of freeware