EXE In Zip FIles

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Dec 6 15:39:48 GMT 2004


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It just stops it applying filename and filetype checks inside archives.
It does *not* affect virus scanning of archives, this is still done as
usual.

Stephen Conway wrote:

>Thanks for the reply.
>
>Will setting this have any other effect?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Julian Field
>Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:57 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: EXE In Zip FIles
>
>Set "Maximum Archive Depth = 0".
>
>On 6/12/04 2:49 pm, "Stephen Conway" <sconway at WLNET.COM> wrote:
>
>
>>Hello:
>>
>>Sorry, as I missed the response for this, if any.  Is there a way to have
>>
>>
>MS
>
>
>>do the following?
>>
>>Is it possible to allow MS to pass exe files contained inside zip files?
>>Without needing to rename the inside file?
>>
>>

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