Exes within Zips

[Rick Cooper]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Paul Welsh
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:54 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Exes within Zips
>
>
> 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.
>

>From the 4.28.5 changelog:

- Setting the maximum archive nesting depth to 0 while banning
password-
  protected zip files will result in the attachments being
checked to ensure
  they are not password-protected, while not enforcing any other
file rules
  on the contents.