Very long filenames?

[Bjørn T Johansen]

Why does mailscanner stop this file?




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At Fri Feb 22 09:49:33 2008 the virus scanner said:

   MailScanner: Very long filenames are good signs of attacks against
Microsoft e-mail packages (Hovedregelen e.doc)



The only option I can find in filenames.rules.conf is this..:

deny    .{150,}                 Very long filename, possible OE attack 


My regexp isn't what it should be, so what does this mean? I don't think this filename is long....?


Regards,

BTJ
 

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