Zip files checking

[Mike Kercher]

I think a .exe inside of a .zip should be allowed.  Otherwise, there would
be no method of transferring a legitimate executable.

Mike



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        From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]
On Behalf Of Roger Jochem
        Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:49 PM
        To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
        Subject: Zip files checking


        I'm sending this e-mail again because my configuration on the list
was incorrect, and I don't know if it already was sended or because of this
"misconfiguration" the email didn't gone at the first time.. (sorry)

        I found a strange problem in MailScanner. I just updated my
MailScanner to version 4.29-7, and now I was testing the zip file checking.

        I send an e-mail with an .exe file inside an .zip file, and
mailscanner blocked it. Great! It worked!

        And then I forwarded this .zip file, and this time the .zip file
passet through mailscanner.

        Then I made several other tests, and found out that every .zip file
in e-mails are checked and blocked, but if the e-mail is forwarded, the .zip
file always passes through.

        Any ideas to correct this problem?

        Roger Jochem
        SBS - SC
        Brazil