Stop blocking content inside zips

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Nov 4 19:53:13 GMT 2005


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Michele Neylon :: Blacknight.ie wrote:

>Denis Beauchemin wrote:
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>
>>It is quite dangerous, though, because many viruses travel inside ZIP
>>files nowadays...
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>Maybe, but do you want your support staff to spend their entire day
>releasing blocked exe files?
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>
We are shortly going to publish a little managed quarantine retrieval 
system, so releasing a message attachment for someone is about 2 or 3 
clicks.

We have  a few other issues to contend with at the moment, but hopefully 
it will be released soon when my colleague has time to finish it off and 
package it up.

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