Hi,

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Matt Kettler wrote:

[...]
>
> The partiuclar message you were testing against is a common virus email..
> SA isn't designed to catch viruses, and has no rules to catch this one.. if
> you really want to catch them, search in the archives of this list for SWEN
> and you should find some people posting rules to catch the swen worm..
>
> However, you'd probably be better off implementing a virus scanner to catch
> most of these things.

Or, if you have control of the your mailserver, rejecting Win32
executables at the MTA level.

I'm not sure where I got the following from (I didn't write it) but the
file below helps Postfix keep viruses off my system. It's probably similar
to the MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE eval test in SA.

Probably the easiest and safest thing for Hendrik to do is to set

  score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 4.9

Anyone who has a legitimate reason for mailing you a Win32 executable
should also know enough to put it in a zip archive first. It's
inconvenient but the cost of zipping it first is minor compared to the
cost of not filtering Win32 binaries.

hth,

-- Bob

#
/^Content-(?:Disposition:\s+attachment;|Type:).*\b(?:file)?name\s*=.*\.(?:
        ad[ep]                                          |
        asd                                                     |
        ba[st]                                          |
        chm                                                     |
        cmd                                                     |
        com(?=$|")                                      |
        cpl                                                     |
        crt                                                     |
        dll                                                     |
        eml                                                     |
        exe                                                     |
        hlp                                                     |
        hta                                                     |
        in[fs]                                          |
        isp                                                     |
        jse?                                            |
        lnk                                                     |
        md[betw]                                        |
        ms[cipt]                                        |
        nws                                                     |
        ocx                                                     |
        ops                                                     |
        pcd                                                     |
        p[ir]f                                          |
        reg                                                     |
        sc[frt]                                         |
        sh[bsm]                                         |
        swf                                                     |
        url                                                     |
        vb[esx]?                                        |
        vxd                                                     |
        ws[cfh]                                         |
        \{[[:xdigit:]]{8}(?:-[[:xdigit:]]{4}){3}-[[:xdigit:]]{12}\}
                )\b/x           REJECT Windows executables not allowed

#__END__


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