Double File extension

Peter Farrow peter at farrows.org
Mon Jan 20 14:53:45 GMT 2014


I disagree,

hiding windows file extensions is a simple and easy way to fool the end 
user.

Personally I would never allow double-barreled extensions.

Do this at your peril.

P.


On 20/01/2014 14:15, Jerry Benton wrote:
> Johan,
>
> I would suggest just allowing the multiple file extensions. The idea 
> behind this check is pretty old and has been overcome by modern times 
> and methods. You would still drive customers crazy if you blocked:
>
> document.Jan.doc
> document.feb.doc
>
> etc.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Johan Hendriks 
> <joh.hendriks at gmail.com <mailto:joh.hendriks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello all.
>
>     I have mailscanner running and it all works quite well.
>     The only thing i encounter is that people use a lot of (.) in there
>     files, and this triggers the deny rule of multiple extensions.
>
>     Is there a way to only check the last two extensions, and only
>     block if
>     both are three caracters long?
>
>     regards
>
>     Johan
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