Executable vs Binary

Jerry Benton jerry.benton at mailborder.com
Fri Apr 17 15:07:03 UTC 2015


Yep. Attached.



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Jerry Benton
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> On Apr 17, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Shawn Iverson <IversonS at rushville.k12.in.us> wrote:
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> Jerry,
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> I will study this and see if I can assist.  
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> Do you have a sample document with this .dat embedded?
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Jerry Benton <jerry.benton at mailborder.com <mailto:jerry.benton at mailborder.com>> wrote:
> Has anyone dealt with this? I can’t decide if I should mod the source or just change the configs:
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> - Microsoft document comes through with some sort of dat file embedded. While MS see that dat file as text/plain, the character set is binary, so it nails it as an executable.
> - Allowing executables will allow the file.
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> So, there’s the rub. Under the current code we have to allow executables for these “newer” types of Microsoft documents to get through. This isn’t restricted to just Microsoft. There are several other file formats that make MailScanner fire on this.
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> Ideas?
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