Chris, I think you've misinterpreted what was said.
In plain speak: 1. It's not Jerome, it's Jeroen. 2. Presumably, he looked at your config and sees that you have nothing in place to block attachments, therefore they get through. This is either your lack of understanding of the configuration and operation of ASSP (which begs the RTFM response), or laziness on your part in actually being willing to understand how the system works. While it's possible that neither of those is the case, experience in any forum such as this makes it quite likely that you fall into one of those categories. 3. Rather than simply insult you, Jeroen gave you the information you sought... only you'd have to do a little work to implement it. He says that ASSP is letting attachments through because you told it to. He is suggesting that IF you want to block attachments, go and tell ASSP to do so. 4. He further points out that the larger disappointment is that so many end users are still clueless enough to actually download, open, and execute an unknown file. Any user that borks his/her own workstation in this way actually needs education regarding what they did, and NOT to do it in the future. Sysadmins all over the world deal with this every day, and it comprises a lot of the work that PC techs end up doing. And it shouldn't be that way. <sigh> Blocking all attachments is a lousy solution to the problem. User education is a better one. Don't be so quick to dismiss an answer you think is 'stupid'. Maybe you simply did not understand it. Regards, Bill On Aug 22, 2008, at 2:26 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > My mum told me there was no such thing as a stupid question, just > stupid > answers. > > Well done Jerome, you proved her right. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeroen > van > Aart > Sent: 18 August 2008 20:41 > To: Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy > Subject: Re: [Assp-user] Blocking Attachments > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Recently some nasty trojans invaded our factory, they came >> inside .zip >> files. I am disappointed, because I thought ASSP would stop them, > here >> is my config. Can anyone tell me why .zip files are getting through? > > Because you told ASSP to do so. > > What you should be disappointed about is that there are still people > who > > use unsafe(ly configured) clients and who, after years of warnings, > still blindly open files. For a trojan in a zipfile to work you need > quite a few user interactions. > > A zipfile attached to an email doesn't just automagically detach, > unzip > and execute. > > Regards, > Jeroen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Assp-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Assp-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
