Scanning inside zip files

[Martin.Hepworth]

Yeah there's this page about overloading that I put on the wiki..

http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:rulesets:overloading

(spot you used to be a progammer)

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Kevin Miller
> Sent: 30 October 2008 17:33
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Scanning inside zip files
>
> Paul Welsh wrote:
> > Apologies if this has been covered many times previously
> but I used to
> > set the maximum depth for zip file scanning to 0, ie, disable it.
> > This allowed files that would otherwise be blocked to be zipped and
> > sent.
> >
> > Then recently came the malware in zip files that changed so
> frequently
> > that Clam and others couldn't keep up so I changed my zip scanning
> > setting to block these viruses.
> >
> > Now I'm getting problems from customers who want to send
> programs in
> > zip files so I've had to reset the maximum depth to 0 again.
> >
> > Off the top of my head I can only think that I should turn on the
> > quarantine (it's off at present) and go back to blocking
> programs in
> > zip files, then dig out files that get blocked in error from the
> > quarantine as requested.
> >
> > Anyone else doing something more clever?
>
> Can't say that it's particularly clever on my part, but our
> clever leader Julian made it pretty easy to set up a
> whitelist of domains allowed to send restricted content.
> Default behavior is to block, exceptions allowed to pass.
> This is simple if you only have a couple of exceptions.  If
> you're talking dozens on a random basis it isn't quite so handy...
>
> ...Kevin
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