> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric > Rostetter > Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 2:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Simple patch for dealing with password > zipfiles > > > Quoting John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > This brings up an interesting point. I've never seen a > legitimate file on a > > windows box with two or more 3-character extensions. Would it be a bad > > assumption to make? > > Yes. Because not all machines are windows machines. Because the e-mail > may just be going through the windows box on its way elsewhere. Because > people make mistakes (save their word file as file.doc so it becomes > file.doc.doc, etc). >
Windows hiding file extensions for known file types by default is a huge cause of multiple file extensions. I really hate that microsoft has done this. Jim ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
