ohhhhhh great i just got one of those files... how do i block them with regex etc... thanks !
Sheldon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 6:18 AM Subject: [IMGate] Re: Email with password protected attachments are defeating Virus Scanners > What a luxury it would be to just dump all attachments, but if you're a > service provider I don't think you'd last to long... > > Eric Long > SystemLink Broadband Corp. > 10460 Roosevelt Blvd. Suite 277 > St. Petersburg, FL 33716 > www.systemlinkbroadband.com > Main 727.556.9033 > Support 727.573.9020 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Rod Dorman > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 1:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMGate] Re: Email with password protected attachments are > defeating Virus Scanners > > On Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 19:54:18, Bill Landry wrote: > >> It wouldn't make any sense to allow un-passworded .zips > >> and block only password protected ones. > > > > Why not? If the zip files are not password protected, then you can > > effectively virus scan them. But if they are password protected, then you > > can't, so block them. > > I suppose it depends upon your user base. People 'zip' files for a > variety of reasons: > * for the compression (hopefully exceeding the MIME expansion) > * to put lots of files into one handy package > * for privacy/security in case the e-mail is intercepted > > If they put a high benefit on the last one they're not going to > understand why they have to lose that feature in order to continue to > receive archives. > > Its all a lost cause anyway. Any idiot that's stupid enough to enter a > password to unzip a file they weren't expecting and run the contents is > stupid enough to follow directions to rename virus.zap to virus.zip > before unziping too. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another one o' them new worlds. No beer, no > Rod Dorman women, no pool parlors, nothing. Nothing to > do but throw rocks at tin cans. And we gotta > bring our own tin cans. > -- Earl Holliman (Cookie), Forbidden Planet > > > > >
