Allowing .exe files in .zip files

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Aug 17 18:36:27 IST 2004


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At 18:31 17/08/2004, you wrote:
>I assume that
>Maximum Archive Depth = 0
>only tells MailScanner not to consider filename rules in the zip file.  It
>still unzips as
>many layers are needed to scan for viruses, correct?

Correct. The unzipping for virus scanning is actually done by the virus
scanners themselves.
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