On Friday, March 05, 2004 12:20 PM, Curt Purdy wrote: > Methinks you misunderstand. Only the proprietary extension, > i.e. .inc or .xyz or .whatever, would be allowed through, and > since virus writers would never use this extension, it would > eliminate ALL viruses at the gateway. > The nice thing about this approach is that it completely > eliminates the need for any anti-virus on the mail server > since all virus attachments are automatically dropped without > the need for scanning. Quite a simple, yet elegant solution, > if I do say so myself.
And (I think this paraphrases a collective thought) happens when the virus writers start sending attachments using that "magic" extension and include a social-engineered message in the e-mail to rename this thing to a .exe and execute it.? cdv ------------------------ Chris DeVoney Clinical Research Center Informatics University of Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] 206-598-6816 ------------------------ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
