more on zero byte exe files

[Martin.Hepworth]

Jeff

Bouncing email is considered a bad idea, ' rejecting' is different, but
I never get MS to bounce any emails...

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jeff A. Earickson
> Sent: 30 January 2007 14:46
> To: mailscanner mailing list
> Subject: more on zero byte exe files
>
> Gang,
>
> Since the file is zero bytes, named exe, and does not trigger
> a sophos/clam virus event, I am having a lot of the following
> messages outgoing:
>
>     From: MailScanner <postmaster at colby.edu>
>     To: upwcc at wwsolutions.demon.co.uk
>     Subject: Warning: E-mail viruses detected
>
>     Our e-mail content detector has just been triggered by a message
you
> sent:
>       To: llivshi at colby.edu
>       Subject: Wine and Roses
>       Date: Tue Jan 30 09:18:57 2007
>
>     One or more of the attachments (Greeting Card.exe) are on
>     the list of unacceptable attachments for this site and will not
have
>     been delivered.
>
>     Consider renaming the files to avoid this constraint.
>
>     The virus detector said this about the message:
>     Report: Report: MailScanner: Executable DOS/Windows programs are
> dangerous
>     in email (Greeting Card.exe)
>
> which will make me (and MailScanner) *real* popular in the real world.
> I don't want to remove the exe check in filename.rules.conf, which is
> the only quick way I can think of to shut up MailScanner.  Help....
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
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