[Mimedefang] survey: dropping password protected file

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 13:53, James Miller wrote:
> >
> >
> > We just went through the same thing and have told people we will be
> > dropping zip files until we work out a sane way of 'scanning' ones that
> > are bad. Of course the .zip item is already being deprecated by the .txt
> > virii that tell the user in the email to rename the .txt to .zip and
> > open it up and then run the application for security reasons.
> >
> > --
> > Stephen John Smoogen		smoogen at lanl.gov
> 
> We've decided to do the same thing.. Could you share what you did within
> mimedefang to drop them?

At the moment it is just the generic bad file name list and adding .zip
to it. I am hoping to get some time to work with the Archive::Zip method
listed earlier today to work with our filters.. at that point we would
remove it from the generic .zip and use that test to remove it or not.

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