SV: .exe and .com files --- Warning

[Julian Field]

And I hope they all read my posting just now on the subject of your patch.
Otherwise MailScanner's reputation is going to be badly hit by people 
getting viruses and not knowing how/why it happened, blaming it on 
MailScanner :-(

At 13:58 09/07/2002, you wrote:
> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Från: Denis Beauchemin [mailto:Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA]
> > Skickat: den 9 juli 2002 14:47
> > Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Ämne: .exe and .com files
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just started testing MailScanner and so far it is quite promising.
> >
> > I would like to deny .exe and .com extensions (I know it can
> > be done in
> > filename.rules.conf) but I would like them to be scanned anyways by my
> > antivirus (McAfee) so people would know that the files were
> > infected (if
> > they were).
>
>As far as I figured out all mail will be scanned before file rules.
>
> >
> > That way we would get much less calls from people requesting
> > their files
> > back.
> >
> > Could this be done?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > Denis Beauchemin, analyste
> > Université de Sherbrooke, S.T.I.
> > T: 819.821.8000x2252 F: 819.821.8045
>
>I prefer the other way that first check file rules and then do the scann
>Since we have an averige of 3-500 mails an hour I prefer to do it
>in that order, rather use my cpu for the files we accept then
>having it virusscan files we dont accept
>I also changed the messages not to say Ive saved the files and they can call
>helpdesk.
>Even though I save them for trials and virus test.
>In our current system I also added a link to Trends-housecall for ppl on the
>net
>that might not have their own virusdefense. Its a little slow for ppl on
>modem but
>Ive got a lot of nice mails from ppl thanking me for the help.
>Ups, this got out of hand but maybe it might help somone

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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