>Would you consider changing this functionality to consider the other 
files in a compressed file, or at least giving us the option between:


This is not possible, because ASSP_AFC does not know anything about office 
files. Office files are ZIP files and processed like them.
So a part of an Office file will match at zip-level 1. If the Office file 
is in a ZIP the match will be at zip-level 2.

>but the remaining files in the compressed file (or the other parts of the 
PDF) will be analyzed and can separately trigger stripping of the 
containing zip (or the PDF).

All other files in an Office file (ZIP) are remaining fles. If you use the 
hash of a signature file to detect the 'good' exception, the (or any) 
project file would be a remaining file (and possibly blocked).

 
ASSP_AFC handles both cases - "found a bad file" and "found a well known 
good file" - as an exception. In the first case it stops processing the 
attachment and blocks, in the second case it stops processing and 
delivers. Both without analysing any other (still not processed) part of 
this attachment
The check for "a well known good file" is done first for all files in a 
complete uncompressed tree, before (for example) the executable detection 
is done for any part of the ZIP.

There is only one way to be sure a "a well known good file" definition 
can't be (easy) frauded. Restrict the zip-level for parts of office files 
to 1 and for PDF to 0 - and tell the vendors to not zip attachments.

If you fear, a verdors PC can possibly be hijacked and abused to infect 
attachments without lossing an agreed signature - don't use this feature. 

Thomas


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