On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:49:08PM -0600, Michael Chaney wrote: > I have been working with a virus scanner called "mailscanner": > http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/ > > It can use either sophos or mcafee scanners to check for virii. > However, it also has a handy list of all Windows executable types, and > won't let those through. That alone would stop all of the recent mail > worms. If that's too inconvenient for users (which I find difficult to > believe), then it could easily be modified to disallow any attachments > with two extensions if the second is executable. > > Anyway, the point is that signatures aren't even necessary for most of > the email worms that go around. Just stopping Windows executables from > getting through is enough.
Yes. That's why I'm beginning to set up a filtering of email contents using Maildrop while choosing a virus scanner. Anything with .scr, .pif, .exe, .vbs, attachments would be blocked. I'll check your scanner for more extensions to be stopped. You might want to join the Open AntiVirus Project http://www.openantivirus.org/ They've got worthy projects that need developers like you. Thanks, -- Benjamin Oris Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ImagineAsia, Inc. http://www.imagineasia.com/ A Digital Animation Studio (632) 717 1111 loc. 222 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
