[Mimedefang] Blocking Dangerous Attachments in ZIP Files

Lucas Albers admin at cs.montana.edu
Mon Feb 16 12:33:45 EST 2004


Jeffrey Thompson said:
> I've seen some code for blocking dangerous attachments enclosed in ZIP
> files
> (that mydoom is taking advantage of now).  It would be nice to make this
> part of the standard distribution.

I think this is a bad idea.
People zip files that they wish to send through email that are normally
bad attachments.
Your virus scanner will block mydoom, end of problem.

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Luke Computer Science System Administrator
Security Administrator,College of Engineering
Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana



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