Re: [IMail Forum] blocking attachments for certain email boxes

[Joshua Levitsky]

I come from an ISP background so I suppose that's where my ideas come from. I work for AOL Time Warner internal I.T. so we have a mix of ISP ideas and Corporate ideas. I will still say to the end that filtering a filetype is not security, and if you are filtering exe's then you need to add.. com, vbs, bat, pif, and more to really cover all the virus carriers. In my environment I would never allow us to block an entire filetype on the mail server.   -Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Hunt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:28 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] blocking attachments for certain email boxes Maybe if your a ISP but 99.9% of the .exe my company receives are infected files or pornography.  But then declude is cheap insurance and works well even on a old PPro 200 Chris At 12:55 PM 8/30/01 -0400, you wrote: Blocking all exes is not a good idea IMHO. I can send you a virus in a zip file anyway. All blocking all exe's does is make life harder for end users. And if you block exe's are you going to also block pif's and com's and bat's as well? It's a road that shouldn't be gone down. Instead spend the money on Declude's (www.declude.com) antivirus solution and get F-Prot or Mcafee and you'll be doing your users a world of good.   -Josh