On Mar 4, 2004, at 2:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Jim Mercer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]....exe, .pif etc etc). Sometimes users have a legitimate needto get suchfiles through, and the way they do it is to compress them and add a password to the zip archive so the content filter can't look inside.
alternately, the sender could rename the file to "something.exe.noscan". and the receiver could rename it as they are saving it.
oops, maybe i just gave the virus writers a new method of delivery!
How about
blahblah.exe.I-know-what-I'm-doing-and-if-I-get-a-virus-it's-my-own- fault-an
d-I-promise-not-to-blame-the-email-system
This particular extension could be exempted from executable/zip magic detection. :)
Where can I get the patch that started this thread?
Jeff Ramsey MIS Administrator Tubafor Mill, Inc.
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