Executable vs Binary

[Shawn Iverson]

That has to be it....I will upgrade file and see what happens.

I have exhausted everything else.

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Tracy Greggs <mailscanner-list at okla.com>
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> For whatever it is worth, I am using file v 5.22
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> 0000.dat: DOS executable (block device driver)
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> *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
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> Jerry,
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> 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....
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> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Jerry Benton <
> jerry.benton at mailborder.com> wrote:
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> Yep. Attached.
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> Jerry Benton
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> www.mailborder.com
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> On Apr 17, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Shawn Iverson <IversonS at rushville.k12.in.us>
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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>
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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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