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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie Ranada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Juan Mejia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: suggestions for blocking dangerous mail attachments?


> 
> We've been doing this for a while now and it has saved us a lot
> of grief.  Look up renattach on Google.  It's an add-on to
> postfix/sendmail/etc. and runs on most unices.
> 
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Juan Mejia wrote:
> 
> > Hello guys,
> >     Tired   of   users  who  refuse  to  think twice before running an
> >     attachment,  I  thought  that  it  would  help  if  the  mail  was
> >     downloaded  from  the  institutional  server  to  a box that would
> >     process    it   and  change  dangerous  file  extensions  in  the
> >     attachments  to  something  like  "Don't  run/rename  if not sure"
> >     (maybe  "format.com.DRIS").  Yes,  people still can run the files,
> >     but  first  they would have to save and rename them. This makes it
> >     harder   to   execute   a  file,  avoiding  the  fast,  thoughtless
> >     reaction of double clicking anything they see on the screen.
> >
> >     Ok,  googling  the web I found that ashampoo  mail  virus  blocker
> >     does  this  (do  I  need  to say I expected this to be an original
> >     idea),  the  problem  is  that  I  would  prefer  a single machine
> >     processing  the  20+ mail accounts. Although I don't know how, I'm
> >     pretty   sure this can be done on my learning-toy-experiment-spare
> >     Linux box.
> >
> >     Here are my questions:
> >
> >          What's your opinion about changing file extensions on windows
> >          machines to reduce the threat of malware through e-mail?
> >
> >          Do you know of some application that does this on linux?
> >
> >          If  there's  nothing  like this on linux, what should I start
> >          reading,  searching,  etc.  in order to make it on my own? (I
> >          have   no   idea   about  e-mail  on  Linux. Also I realize I
> >          probably   will   never get to do it, but having a project in
> >          mind  is the best way to learn  about something new).
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> >  Juan                          mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> 

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