Exes within Zips

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Mar 10 13:35:21 GMT 2004


At 13:19 10/03/2004, you wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> >Sent: 10 March 2004 11:05
> >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: Re: Exes within Zips
> >
> >
>[snip - a user asked]
> >>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.
> >--
> >Julian Field
>
>Julian
>
>We have spent 2 years educating our users and their correspondents to
>zip up executable/dangerous files before attaching them to a message.
>
>They are pretty unhappy with what has happended after my upgrade to
>4-28-6.1.
>
>How can I now
>
>1. allow non-password-protected zip archives through
>AND
>2. allow them to carry .exe and other executable files
>AND
>3. have them scanned for viruses
>AND
>4. and block password-protected zip files?

Set

Allow Password-Protected Archives = no
Maximum Archive Depth = 0

Sorry, that should have been in MailScanner.conf. I must have lost an
update somewhere along the line.
--
Julian Field
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