[Mimedefang] non-virus executables

[Dan Tulovsky]

Why don't you ask your users to zip files?  That's what we do.  

Dan


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> [mailto:mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf 
> Of Les Mikesell
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 9:29 AM
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: [Mimedefang] non-virus executables
> 
> 
> Deleting *.exe (and a few others) is causing some problems
> for my users (sending program updates to customers, etc.).
> On the other hand, I have identified a virus-infected
> internal PC sending out *.pif attachments that clamav
> didn't match with a known pattern.   For the moment
> I have compromised by removing the check for the
> types we need to send and receive.   Is there any way
> to check the MIME type against the filename and
> allow things that won't auto-execute from a mailer?
> For example, any application-octet-stream type should
> only allow saving to a file.   I'd still like to catch the
> *.exe's claiming to be an audio/wav type.
> 
>   Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
> 
> 
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