Hi Chaps,
Some sales types recently ran 'ClearSwift Threat Assessment' against our
Mimedefang based anti-spam system (by invitation :), in an attempt to convince
'the suits' that they should buy MIMESweeper.
Most of what was found was pretty benign ... seems messages containing Albanian
Obscenities get through :)
One thing really got the suits attention though, and that was stuff like this:
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This particular test includes;
-A sample executable, which could represent malware or unlicensed software
-In a Trojan embedded in Word document saved as RTF format
-Included as Troj_EmbedWord.rtf
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Similar reports for Excel and PowerPoint too.
My first reaction was that it was simpler to let host-based Anti-Virus deal
with this threat, but then got to thinking about all the other possibilities. I
can kinda argue it both ways now.
Has anyone looked into this sort of thing in any depth, maybe using Perl
Libraries such as File::MSWord, or calling out to Open Office, etc, or even
just in a position to offer sagely advice on the subject?
Many thanks
Mup.
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