Very long filenames

[Jason Ede]

Is it worth putting that the filename has been sanitised/shortened on the report then to stop the confusion? Or something like 'original length XXX characters'?

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From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Sent: 28 October 2007 22:20
To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Subject: Re: Very long filenames


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It always shows a "sanitised" version of the filename, which will be
shorter than the original if it was very long. I never put the
original, potentially nasty, filename in a report out to the users.
The original filename will have been a lot longer than this.

Arthur Sherman wrote:
> Is this considered a long filename?
>
> Report: MailScanner: Very long filenames are good signs of attacks
> against Microsoft e-mail packages (B_17PCs9ezwrPX.wmv)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Arthur
>
>

Jules

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