Allow only zipped exe's?

[Matt Kettler]

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Tom Schuetz wrote:

>Is there a way to deny "naked" exe attachments, but to allow zipped exe's,
>WITHOUT setting the archive scan depth to 0?
>
>In other words, we still want zip files scanned, but exe's in zips should
>get a free pass.
>
Define "we still want zipfiles scanned".
Do you mean you still want files inside zips to be scanned for viruses,
or scanned for filename restrictions?

If you set archive scan depth to 0, archives, and all the files within
zipfiles and other archives are still scanned for viruses. Your virus
scanner will do the unpacking itself.

The archive depth setting setting ONLY applies to how deep MailScanner
goes when applying filename.rules and filetype.rules. It has no effect
on virus scans.

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