Hi, I'm using IMail Server v. 6.05 and have been using some global filters
(rules.ima in the IMail folder) to redirect messages with suspect file
extensions for all my users to a single "virus" account (all users have a
quarantine.fwd file which points to "virus"). These rules have the syntax

B~(name=".*\pvbs|name=".*\pshs|name=".*\pscr):quarantine
B~(Begin 666.*\pvbs|Begin 666.*\pshs|Begin 666.*\pscr):quarantine

The first rule filters MIME attachments, characterized by the string
name="filename.ext"

while the second rule filters Uuencoded attachments, characterized by the
string
Begin 666

These rules had been working well in testing, yet I received yesterday's
IMail Listserve Digest containing the Kournikova worm despite the rule.
Further testing seems to indicate that the rules will not work if the
filtered string occurs past a point about 25K - 30K into a message (as was
the case with this worm-laden Digest).  I'm wondering if anyone could
confirm (or refute) this apparent flaw in rules filtering?

Michael
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Michael Ernst
Computer Systems Administrator
The Woods Hole Research Center
http://www.whrc.org
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Webmaster
Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia
http://www.ipam.org.br



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