MS Doesn't completely block spam with faulty attachments

[Julian Field]

He's probably switched on some "Notify Senders" options. Bad idea :-(

On 01/09/2011 12:32, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> what version of MS?
>
> I never inform the sender of junk as you end up with fake messages 
> sent out.
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> Martin Hepworth
> Oxford, UK
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> On 1 September 2011 08:17, Joolee <mailscanner at joolee.nl 
> <mailto:mailscanner at joolee.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Hallo Everybody,
>
>     I've experienced a small flood of virus E-mails. These E-mails
>     (subj.: "ACH Payment *random number* Canceled") contain
>     attachments named like: "report_082011-65.pdf.exe"
>     They obviously get blocked by the "no executables" and "No double
>     file extensions" rules. The problem is that after blocking them,
>     an automated E-mail is send to the original recipient and the 
>     (faked) sender of the message, informing them of the blocked
>     attachment.
>
>     Had the E-mails been processed further, they would've probably hit
>     the virusscanner (not tested) or spamassassin (gives a score of 27
>     when tested) and the E-mail would've silently been discarded as a
>     virus / spam / phishing.
>
>     Is it possible to let the MailScanner continue it's processing
>     when hitting the file name rules and / or running the filename
>     rule at a later time?
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