Exes within Zips

[Julian Field]

At 10:53 10/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Sorry if this has been covered.  I did search the mailing list archive
>before posting - honest!
>
>I'm using version 4.28.5 and while I think that stopping encrypted .zip
>files is a good idea with the spate of Netsky permutation viruses, it is
>causing slight problems in that now if someone sends a zipped .exe file,
>MailScanner stops it by default.  Zipping used to be a way of circumventing
>MailScanner's filename rules but clearly no longer.
>
>What's my best way around this?  For now I've simply asked the recipient to
>ask the sender to rename the .zip file .tar or .lzh or .arj.

How about they rename it to _zip instead of .zip.
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