ANNOUNCE: Stable 4.29.7 released

[Denis Beauchemin]

Julian,

Looks like we were having a private conversation...  I reverted it back
to the list...

Le jeu 01/04/2004 à 08:53, Julian Field a écrit :
> At 14:49 01/04/2004, you wrote:
> >Hello Julian,
> >
> >Le jeu 01/04/2004 à 04:15, Julian Field a écrit :
> > > I have just released stable 4.29.7.
> > >
> > > - Zip archives detection improved to work by content rather than filename.
> >
> >Does that mean that a zip archive will be detected and ist contents
> >scanned even if its name doesn't end in .zip?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >I hope not because I've been telling people to rename their zip file to
> >something else to avoid the contents checks.  And since I don't use
> >filetype checks it works just fine.
> 
> And one of the virus writers started writing zip files but ending their 
> names in ".rar" in the knowledge that Winzip would still open them. So it 
> had to go content-based, sorry.

Bummer!  I was already blocking rar files...

Could it be modified to use the File Command setting (that I have set to
blank) to decide if it reacts that way?

Denis
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