F-prot update

Dan Hollis spamtrap71892316634 at ANIME.NET
Fri Mar 5 19:12:47 GMT 2004


On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Julian Field wrote:
> At 13:27 05/03/2004, you wrote:
> >I guess the f-prot update will mean more changes to MailScanner
> I'm not going to rush out a new release for that, as MailScanner now
> performs filename checks on the contents of Zip files anyway, even if they
> are password-protected.
> So it doesn't really give you very much extra value when used within
> MailScanner.

f-prot doesnt actually unzip the file and check it, it just adds new
heuristics for filename size and extension.

It would be nice if mailscanner could deal with password protected
archives by extracting the password from the mail body...

-Dan



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