What is the contents of your (archive).filename/filetype.rules.conf ? And do you reference these files from your Mailscanner.conf?<br><br>And do you zip the ryan1.exe file in your example or did you send that as a plain, non-zipped attachment?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 August 2012 15:55, Ryan Braganza <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryan.virgo@gmail.com" target="_blank">ryan.virgo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear Users,<br><br>I have enabled blocking of exe in zip archives by setting the "Maximum Archive Depth = 5" <br><br>I have a proper exe file wininst-7.1.exe which maybe is some windows setup exe. When i do a file command for this exe i get the below output<br>
<br>file wininst-7.1.exe<br>wininst-7.1.exe: PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit<br><br>If I zip it and mail it, Mailscanner fails to block it and pass's it through. <br><br>If a create a file with an exe extension <br>
<br>file ryan1.exe <br>ryan1.exe: ASCII text<br><br>Mailscanner is able to block it .....<br><br>What could be wrong here ? the version am using is mailscanner-4.84.3-1<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br><br>
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