Re: [IMail Forum] Attachments getting past my rules

[R. Scott Perry]

>Hi all. I got a bat file and a pif file as attachments today. I've noticed 
>that everyone here uses quotes in the filename=".*\.extension" and 
>name=".*\.extension" rules.

That's because most mail clients use the quotes, which allows for long file 
names to be used.

>By the way, my wife also got a pif and her's didn't have the quotes in 
>them either.

That could well be because the Sircam virus uses its own SMTP functions to 
send out the E-mail.  It likely uses a "plain vanilla" method of creating 
the E-mail and sending it.

                                                            -Scott

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