Quarantine access

Anakin SkyWalker basement_mobile2004 at YAHOO.COM
Mon Jun 7 20:02:05 IST 2004


   It's a working model for sure. But I'm afraid it's
not very healthy. Since users may try to brute force
dates and MTA's IDs to get access over other users
resources. Am I missing something here?

--- Vlad Mazek <vlad at MAZEK.COM> wrote:
> We do it through a web interface thats tied in with
> the notification
> system. In the attachment warning message that gets
> sent with the virus
> notice to the user we include a url (instead of
> "Note to help desk look
> in /var/spool/blah/blah/blah" we modify the
> stored.virus.message.txt to
> "To retrieve this file go to
> http://www.ownwebnow.com/getmessage=?date=x&id=x")
> and the user can go
> to the web site and grab the file.
>
> The system quickly scans the file, copies it to
> users directory and then
> streams it down to the user.
>
> -Vlad
>
> Vladimir Mazek
> Own Web Now Corp
>

--
Herr Schwarzkopf

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