[Mimedefang] survey: dropping password protected file

[Michael Sims]

Joseph Brennan wrote:
> We are currently refusing all mail with zip files.  Amazingly
> few complaints, from a 50,000-user community.  We don't know yet
> what the long-term plan will be.  That stops bagle.

We are seriously considering doing the same thing.  It seems to me that the
virus writers are starting a shift from com|exe|bat|scr|pif to mainly zip
because they know the former is more likely to be filtered out.  I'm getting
really tired of fighting the zip virus of the day and am almost willing to
surrender ZIP land to the viruses for good...

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Michael Sims
Project Analyst - Information Technology
Crye-Leike Realtors
Office: (901)758-5648  Pager: (901)769-3722
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