.exe in zip getting rejected...

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Oct 13 19:57:06 IST 2004


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It will still be scanned for viruses.

At 19:29 13/10/2004, you wrote:
>I want it to be scanned but just not denied just because its an .exe in a
>.zip file..
>
>
>
>Rob....
>
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Felipe Tonioli" <tonioli at gmail.com>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 2:27 PM
>Subject: Re: .exe in zip getting rejected...
>
>
>>But will be scanned by antivirus ? or will be allowed to go ?
>>
>>
>>On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:20:09 -0500, Mike Kercher <mike at camaross.net>
>>wrote:
>>>Rob wrote:
>>> > I guess at some time I must have not allowed .exe in a .zip file???
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > But I need to allow this... in the filename rules I do not see
>>> > anything to modify other than allow .exe but I want .exe to be denied
>>> > but not in a zip....
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Any help appreciated...
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Rob....
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>________________________________
>>>
>>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>>Behalf Of Mark Spieth Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 1:09 PM
>>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>>Subject: Re: .exe in zip getting rejected...
>>>
>>>Maximum Archive Depth = 0 in your Mailscanner.conf will tell the system
>>>not to look into the zip files.
>>>
>>>Mark Spieth - Director of Internet Services
>>>
>>>Northeast Ohio Digital Inc.
>>>
>>>http://www.neod.net <http://www.neod.net/>
>>>
>>>mspieth at neod.net
>>>
>>>330-830-6551
>>>
>>>________________________________
>>>
>>>What does this do in case the .zip file is infected?

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