Incorectly blocking files.

[Julian Field]

On 23/02/2010 09:49, Erik Bloodaxe wrote:
> Lyndon Labuschagne wrote:
>> On 22 Feb 2010, at 12:09 PM, Erik Bloodaxe wrote:
>>
>>    
>>> Mail Scanner seems to object to MatLab files.  One user got a message:
>>>
>>> At Fri Feb 19 17:19:06 2010 the virus scanner said:
>>>   MailScanner: Microsoft Access Shortcuts are dangerous in email (Spec_Power_New.mat)
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me to correcting this.
>>>
>>>      
>> Hi Erik, What you need to do is check out the filename.rules file
>> the line you are looking for is this one,
>> deny    \.ma[dfgmqrstvw]$       Possible Microsoft Access Shortcut attack                               Microsoft Access Shortcuts are dangerous in email
>>
>> you can change that deny to allow or take the "t" out of the \.ma[dfgmaqrstvw] string,
>>
>>
>>    
> Thanks for this.  I have edited the above line to say:
>
> deny    \.ma[dfgmqrsvw]$        Possible Microsoft Access Shortcut 
> attack            Microsoft Access Shortcuts are dangerous in email
> #deny   \.ma[dfgmqrstvw]$       Possible Microsoft Access Shortcut 
> attack            Microsoft Access Shortcuts are dangerous in email
>
> but the .mat attachemnts are still being blocked.
You did tell MailScanner to re-read its configuration, didn't you? 
"service MailScanner reload" will do the job on a RedHat or Centos box.
>
> How can I put mail scanner in a debug mode so that I can see it 
> consider each rule in turn?
>
> best
>
> Rob
>

Jules

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