[Mimedefang] Invalid "mimedefang.pl -structure" output andvirus scanning behaviour

Dirk Mueller dmuell at gmx.net
Mon Mar 1 19:41:15 EST 2004


On Tuesday 02 March 2004 00:02, Lucas Albers wrote:

> Blocking harmful attachment types would have protected from this virus
> irrespective of whether you were rebuilding mime types?

Well, blocking harmful attachment fails when MIMEdefang cannot parse the MIME 
structure correctly. The users mail agent might not show it as "attachment", 
but its still there, and can still be extracted manually. 


Dirk



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