Confused about dangerous content scanning setup

[Andrew MacLachlan]

Many apologies - It was late and I was copy 'n' pasting from the hip...
The main point was the "Allow Password-Protected Archives ="  part of the message.

-Andy


----- Original Message ----
From: Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org>
To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Thursday, 17 May, 2007 11:00:55 AM
Subject: Re: Confused about dangerous content scanning setup

On Thu, 17 May 2007, Andrew MacLachlan wrote:

> In MailScanner.conf:
>
> # Should archives which contain any password-protected files be allowed?
> # Leaving this set to "no" is a good way of protecting against all the
> # protected zip files used by viruses at the moment.
> # This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> Allow Password-Protected Archives = no
>
> I guess for your purposes you would want to create a rule for specific users:
>
> Allow Password-Protected Archives = %rules-dir%/zip.password
>
> zip.password:
> To:<tab>user at swatgear.com<tab>no
> FromOrTo:<tab>default<tab>yes

I think you need to swap YES and NO here as we are talking about ALLOWING 
something.

Hugo.

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