Executable vs Binary

[Shawn Iverson]

Jerry,

I am going to upgrade my MailScanner to your latest release and test this
again.  I simply cannot get it to detect the .dat as an executable for some
reason....

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Jerry Benton <jerry.benton at mailborder.com>
wrote:

> 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
> > wrote:
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>> 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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>> Jerry Benton
>> www.mailborder.com
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