[Mimedefang] Configure uvscan to scan inside a zip file.

[John]

At 02:54 PM 6/26/2003, you wrote:


>On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Brent J. Nordquist wrote:
>
> > Or "your_details.zi" (without the "p" for reasons explained on that site)
> > which fortunately makes it harder for users to infect their machines.  :-)
>
>    Somehow or another, we have a lot of campus users whose workstations
>have ".zi" associated with WinZIP.  Not sure how that happened.  We are
>getting hit by this.  I am going to filter that filename.
>
>    Another thing I don't understand is this - with the default.pif inside
>the zip file, apparently they dont have to manually launch the pif, just
>by opening the zip file, it launches the enclosed .pif.  Anyone know how
>that works?

That's not the case.  I open it last night knowing what it was to kinda 
play with it and it did nothing.  Various sites mention you have to execute 
the .pif to get infected.  It will not self run...


>Jim
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