Executable vs Binary

[Tracy Greggs]

For whatever it is worth, I am using file v 5.22

 

0000.dat: DOS executable (block device driver)

 

 

From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Shawn Iverson
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 10:28 AM
To: MailScanner Discussion
Subject: Re: Executable vs Binary

 

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

www.mailborder.com

 

 

 

 

On Apr 17, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Shawn Iverson <IversonS at rushville.k12.in.us> wrote:

 

Jerry,

 

I will study this and see if I can assist.  

 

Do you have a sample document with this .dat embedded?

 

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Jerry Benton <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:

- 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.

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.


Ideas?

-
Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com <http://www.mailborder.com/> 





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