How to stop every exe from being flagged as a virus?

Jeff A. Earickson jaearick at COLBY.EDU
Wed Mar 26 13:19:56 GMT 2003


Hi,
   We tell our users to zip anything executable before sending it.  The
default setup in Mailscanner is to let zip files go through.

--- Jeff Earickson

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Jody Cleveland wrote:

> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:16:36 -0600
> From: Jody Cleveland <Cleveland at MAIL.WINNEFOX.ORG>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: How to stop every exe from being flagged as a virus?
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there any way to stop having every .exe attachment from being shot down
> in flames? We have a few users who transfer files back and forth, so it's
> been an issue for them. I'm using mailscanner with f-prot on redhat 8.
>
> --
> Jody Cleveland
> (cleveland at winnefox.org)
>
> Winnefox Library System
> Computer Support Specialist
>



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