[Mimedefang] archive extension associations

Jim McCullars jim at info.uah.edu
Fri Jun 27 16:27:01 EDT 2003


On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, James Miller wrote:

> We are were burned a bit earlier with the W32.Sobig.E at mm virus in an
> attachment with the extension .zi .. as opposed to .zip.  So mimedefang
> didn't know to scan the file and .zi isn't on the banned extension list (I
> added zi to it but will that block zip files as well?)

   It shouldn't.

> through.  Anyway, my question is, how do you associate .zi files with unzip
> so that mimedefang will scan those files as well?

   I don't think this is a MIMEDefang issue, I think this is a virus
scanner issue.  But if you drop .zi files, there is no need to scan them.

Jim





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