[Mimedefang] scanning archives -- was W32/Bagle.p at MM spreading asrar

[Paul Murphy]

Matt wrote:

> For people working on code to scan inside of various archive 
> types, I wish that MIMEDefang allowed for having a separate 
> list of badexts for archives.

My code for MD 2.39 posted here a few weeks back had exactly that so that ZIP
files were not included in the banned list, but ZIP files (or JAR/RAR/TGZ, etc)
inside the ZIP file scanner were blocked.  It worked by defining a "bad_zip_ext"
expression which could be different from the main one.

I haven't seen how 2.40/2.41 handles the ZIP file scanning, but I'd hope that
this sort of check would be easy to build in.

Best Wishes,

Paul.
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