[Mimedefang] Latest Worms and IE Exploits

[Royce Williams]

David F. Skoll wrote:
  > I have seen nothing in my inbox, and I don't run an AV scanner.  The
> extension-blocking rule (exe, pif, scr, etc.) catches everything so far.
> 
> Are there really any good reasons to allow these kinds of attachments in?
> Just curious as to why anyone (who runs Windows) would possibly want to
> allow them in.

As an ISP, I have to be a little more flexible.  I'm defanging .exe,
.pif, .scr, etc but letting them fly otherwise.  For the less common
but pontentially harmful extensions, I'm just tagging them for sorting
at the next hop inside.


Royce

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