Filtering on filename extensions

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Oct 24 10:40:48 IST 2001


At 17:14 23/10/2001, you wrote:
>Which begs the question as to why these two common file extensions are
>not already there given that an attachment with a repeated file
>extension is scanned for viruses anyway?

I believe my previous message answers this...
Remember we are trying to stop some viruses *before* Sophos have a chance
to get an IDE file out for them.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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