"Stoddard, Isaac A" wrote: > > Folks, > > Our corporate anti-viral filters traps cygwin-announce now. Someone has > decided that (imagine the punctuation) "setup dot exe" is a potential virus > vector and all list-mailed messages containing it as a character string are > automatically blocked. Hence, I can no longer receive cygwin-announce. > > Our filters can't be the only ones blocking you guys (and other good folks' > news) from reaching us. Would someone at your site be > interested/able/willing to change the standard announcement text to avoid > mentioning that executable?
Quality anti-viral filters should only block ATTACHEMENTS named "something dot exe" not just the mention of it. My suggestion is to get a new anti-virus program or ask your anti-virus admin to be less strident about blocking text-only messages. This is almost certainly a "stupid admin" trick, not a default setting in your anti-virus (or more likely firewall) config. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
