Fw: Warning: E-mail viruses detected

Darrin Powell dpowell at LSSI.NET
Thu Jan 31 17:06:53 GMT 2002


Please change the subject of this message. You are messing up my email
filters :)



On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 11:33, David Sullivan wrote:
> On 31 Jan 2002 at 21:39, Rishi Gangoly wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > How did this happen?
> >
> > They were plain PDF files and for sure did not have any Viruses in them.
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> > One or more of the attachments are on the list of unacceptable attachments
> > for this site and will not have been delivered.
> >
> > Consider renaming the files or putting them into a "zip" file to avoid
> > this constraint.
> >
> > The virus detector said this about the message:
> > Report: Attempt to hide real filename extension in datasheet.raq3.pdf
> > Report: Attempt to hide real filename extension in datasheet.raq4.pdf
> This will happen for any "double extension" that doesn't have an explicit
> "allow" in the filename.rules.conf
>
> This has caught us out, we've recently added ".doc" as an allow rule so you may
> want to do a similar thing for ".pdf" files.
> Whether this is *completely* safe is debateable.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> David Sullivan        IT Services, Barnet College, London
>                             David.Sullivan at barnet.ac.uk
>                             020 8275 5036
--
Darrin Powell
System Administrator
LSSi, Corp.
(919) 466-6803



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