Attempt to hide real filename extention

[Mike Kercher]

I think it was referring to the .rtf.ent extensions.  Lots of times, junk
would come with an extension like .doc.scr and Windoze machines would not
show the .scr extension...and the .scr script attachment was malicious.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thom Paine" <thom at DARKSABER.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:15 AM
Subject: Attempt to hide real filename extention


> I got an error on one site running mailscanner.
>
> Report: Attempt to hide real filename extension in Body_Rtf.rtf.ent
>
> What does this mean exactly? I checked the filename rules file, and
> couldn't see an entry about .ent.
>
> Could someone shed some light on this?
>
> Thanks.
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