Double Extension Permission

[Ed Bruce]

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Marcin Ro¿ek wrote:

> Thom Paine wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to allow this site to accept these types of documents?
>> Currently everything gets stripped off.
>
> Remove or comment a line in filename.rules.conf that is described as
> "Deny all other double file extensions. This catches any hidden 
> filenames."
>
> btw - is this really should be turned on by default? I mean, if a 
> virus sends
> its copy as eg. document.doc.pif, i will be blocked because of having 
> .pif
> extension...
> Just my thought...

I think this site has a good explanation why you want to stop most 
double extensions:

http://www.cknow.com/vtutor/vtextensions.htm

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Ed Bruce



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