[Mimedefang] Danger of .vcs files?

[Ben Kamen]

I thought .vcs was for virtual cards?

i.e. Palm Desktop (the windows program for PalmOS handhelds) and others, 
etc..etc... (or was that .vcd?)

Anyway - just a thought..

  -Ben


Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com wrote:

> Jim Hatfield wrote:
> 
>>I see that .vcs is listed in filter_bad_filename.
>>
>>One of my users is subscribed to a mailing list and there
>>are often mails to the list with attachments called vcal.vcs.
>>Because we reject these at the gateway, the list management
>>software is getting tetchy and threatening to remove him from the
>>list. 
>>
>>If anyone can tell me what the danger of these files is,
>>I'd appreciate it, then I can decide whether to risk
>>letting them in.
>>
>>jim
> 
> 
> Does the user need to receive the .vcs attachments?
> If not, why not just quarantine all .vcs attachments rather than bouncing the email.
> 
> .vcs does not appear on webopedia's list of known extensions:
> http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/fileextensionsv.asp
> 
> so it can't be a commonly associated extension.
> 
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