detect executables embedded inside MS Office documents?

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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Furnish, Trever G wrote:
| Anyone know a way to get MailScanner/SA to detect executables embedded
| within Microsoft Office documents?  We've had a word file come in with a
| .scr file embedded inside, wasn't detected by antivirus, but was
| definitely malware.  Would love to be able to block files embedded into
| office docs based on file extension / file type.  Didn't even know it
| was possible to do that (embed an executable inside a word file) until
| today.

How will an open source community work with closed source solutions?
Perhaps it safer to block them all together.

Hugo.

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	A: Yes.
	>Q: Are you sure?
	>>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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