.exe in zip getting rejected...

[Julian Field]

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It will still be scanned for viruses. Don't worry.

At 19:27 13/10/2004, you wrote:
>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.
> > ________________________________
> >
> > What does this do in case the .zip file is infected?
> >
> > Mike

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ

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