[Mimedefang] Tighter filename matching

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Fri May 31 09:08:15 EDT 2002


On Fri, 31 May 2002, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:

> Why match by file name, where using UNIX file on it may discover
> executables and BAT files in any current and future exploitable extension ?

That's another option, but it's slower (you have to fork and exec
file) and not reliable---I can write a .bat file which "file" says
is "ASCII text":

rem How are you today?  I'm fine
deltree /y c:\

--
David.




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