Still catching "Possible Microsoft security vulnerability attack"

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Oct 7 18:36:01 IST 2002


At 18:27 07/10/2002, you wrote:
>On 07 October 2002 10:49 -0600 John Hanks <john.hanks at USU.EDU> wrote:
>
>>Ok, looks like I have overcome my source of confusion. This works (at
>>least nothing has been caught in the last 10 minutes or so)
>>
>>Allow IFrame Tags = yes
>>Allow Codebase Tags = yes
>
>Please be warned that if you have these set to "yes" then some
>bugbear-infected e-mails will NOT be scanned. I had this happen this
>afternoon when a bugbear-infected e-mail with IFrame tags got through.
>Having set IFrame to "no" it correctly scanned and quarantined it.

Yuck. Can you send me a copy of whatever you think got through? They should
always be virus-scanned regardless of these settings.
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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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