WMV's Getting Through

Mike Kercher mkercher at nfsmith.com
Wed Sep 24 20:23:31 IST 2008


I don't have any rulesets that allow WMV's for anyone.  I want to block
them all.  WMV seems to be the only extension getting through...mp3, mpg
and avi are still being blocked.

Mike
 

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Alex
Neuman van der Hans
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 13:41
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: WMV's Getting Through

You probably have multiple recipients and one has the right to receive
them.

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Alex Neuman
Reliant Technologies
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On Sep 24, 2008, at 1:24 PM, "Mike Kercher" <mkercher at nfsmith.com>
wrote:

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Mike
> Kercher
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:55
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: WMV's Getting Through
>
> Recently, .WMV files have started being delivered through my MS boxes.
>
> I ran file against one of the attachments:
>
> file JobMarket-2010.wmv
> JobMarket-2010.wmv: Microsoft ASF
>
> In my filetype.rules.conf, I have:
>
> deny    ASF             No Windows media        No Windows media files
> allowed
>
> This hasn't been changed in a LONG time
>
> I even tried adding \.wmv$ to filename.rules.conf, but they are still
> coming through.
>
> The only thing I see in the logs is that the email is too big for spam
> checks (is too big for spam checks (6657685 > 150000 bytes))
>
> Any idea what I'm missing here?
>
> TIA
>
> Mike
> --
>
> Bumping to see if anyone has any suggestions.
>
> Mike
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