Good day list.
I just finished a discussion with a company called Mindjet
(http://www.mindjet.com/).
The discussion was regarding their sending .bin files within a modified .zip
file into us. Our environment is made up of a front line smtp server with
Antigen for SMTP on it. In there we obviously look for viruses and .exe
files, etc. One of the file formats we currently block is .bin. This decision
goes back to before '98 when there was a published file type listing that
said basically there is no reason to accept .bin, .sys, .com, etc. types of
files. Now, while this, in itself will be a problem with this company, the
technician dropped another bomb on me and said that Office 2007 will be using
.bin files and compression to send documents, etc.
He also mentioned more capabilities of scripting being done from within these
attachments. I won't go into my thoughts about the problems this creates, but
rather, what you all are doing in your own companies about this.
Should I go ahead and remove the .bin files from being denied? Is the
scanning / security stuff on XP and within the systems themselves good enough
I don't need to filer out files any more?
Thanks.
Felis demulcta mitis ...
Alan G. Monaghan
[ MCSE+I - Win4.0/ MCSE - Win2k/ BJCP # C0389(Recognized) Ò¿Ó¬ ]
Systems Administrator
Gardner Publications, Inc.
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