On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Monday, June 22, 2009 5:59 PM -0700 John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org>
wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Cerebus wrote:
> The zip file contains a file with the name:
> document.pdf .exe
> (note the long run of spaces)
My security sanitizer would quarantine that.
http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html
As would MIMEDefang. http://mimedefang.org/
The danger is for those users who have filter bypasses configured, as the
spaces might make it hard to spot the extra extension.
That's precisely why that particular name pattern is poisoned by default.
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