Incoming attachments with multiple "." in the name

[Scott Silva]

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Jason Williams spake the following on 12/1/2005 9:47 AM:
> Just a quick question.
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> 
> Recently, our investors have been sending us spreadsheet files with
> information that is important to us. However, they have been naming the
> files with multiple ^Óperiods^Ô in them. For example:
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> Todays.file.01.xls
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> These files get stripped off at the mailgateway as ClamAV:
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> Filename Checks: Found possible filename hiding (jB1EO4rT076234
> 051201.F1.WFL.xls)
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> Is there a way around this, but ensuring that no true hidden viruses get
> to the internal network? Is there some type of customization I can make
> so this won^Òt happen, and my users won^Òt freak out?
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> I appreciate it.
This isn't from clamav. This is from the filename checks in MailScanner.
You could disable this, maybe dangerous maybe not, or get your users to
use some other de-limiter like - or _ instead of a "dot". If you are
using the filetype checks, you might get away with disabling this.

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