--On Wednesday, March 3, 2004 1:11 PM -0600 Michael Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joseph Brennan wrote:We are currently refusing all mail with zip files. Amazingly few complaints, from a 50,000-user community. We don't know yet what the long-term plan will be. That stops bagle.
We are seriously considering doing the same thing. It seems to me that the virus writers are starting a shift from com|exe|bat|scr|pif to mainly zip because they know the former is more likely to be filtered out. I'm getting really tired of fighting the zip virus of the day and am almost willing to surrender ZIP land to the viruses for good...
I still feel like unzipping and checking the extensions of the files contained. I saved the perl posted here and will try it when I get a chance.
There are legit reasons to use zip files and I want to preserve the functionality if we can. But some of our people lost major amounts of work by opening NetSky zip files, and we have been charged with preventing further cases.
The idea of hiring an army of orphans to carry envelopes around campus has been suggested. Attach images with paper clips. It's sounding better every day, but there is apparently some sort of limit on child labor that Counsel will have to check on.
Joseph Brennan Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS) Columbia University in the City of New York
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