[Mimedefang] New virus out, how do I confirm no errors?

[Mark Roedel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fox, Randy [mailto:Randy_Fox at csgsystems.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 9:20 AM
> To: 'mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com'
> Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] New virus out, how do I confirm no errors?
 

Perhaps I'm missing something (I'll admit to not yet being a fluent
speaker of Perl), but it doesn't particularly surprise me that this file

> ------_=_NextPart_000_01C17CF5.E1418EAA
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
> 	name="gone.txt"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> 	filename="gone.txt"

would make it past this filter
 
>     if (re_match_ext($entity,
> '^\.(exe|com|bat|bas|vbs|scr|dll|vxd|pif|reg|lnk|ini)$')) {

Do all of the attachments that your filter missed have a .txt extension
like the one you posted?


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