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Setting it to “yes” solved my problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info] <b>De la part de</b> Ryan Braganza<br><b>Envoyé :</b> mercredi 29 août 2012 07:13<br><b>À :</b> MailScanner discussion<br><b>Objet :</b> Re: Mail-scanner not able to block exe in zip<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I did a fresh centos5.5 installion with the latest Mailscanner and its working perfect, It blocks all zipped exe's as desired. I guess there is some custom configuration on my production servers due to which it fails to work. Will check that out today. <br><br>:-)<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Ryan Braganza <<a href="mailto:ryan.virgo@gmail.com" target="_blank">ryan.virgo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The File Command in my conf was /usr/bin/file , which I then set to /usr/bin/file -i .. Still no luck, <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Joolee <<a href="mailto:mailscanner@joolee.nl" target="_blank">mailscanner@joolee.nl</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As far as i know, this setting only applies to anti-spam features and perhaps virus scans. The other protection functions should ignore this setting. It would be pretty useless to only block executables lower than a certain file size and there is no mention in the rules files. (Although most virus executables are extremely small so they can be send in large volumes.)<br><br>@Ryan: <br>What is your value of the "File Command" setting? There was a discussion a while ago that this should be set to /path/to/file -i and was set to /path/to/file in older versions of MailScanner.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 28 August 2012 09:55, Paul Bijnens <<a href="mailto:Paul.Bijnens@xplanation.com" target="_blank">Paul.Bijnens@xplanation.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Is the setting "Max Spam Check Size" maybe excluding your large exe-inside-zip to be slipping through the fishing net?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><br>On 2012-08-28 05:09, Ryan Braganza wrote:<br>> Hi Joolee below are the contents of the files<br>><br>> cat archives.filetype.rules.conf<br>><br>> allow text - -<br>> allow \bscript - -<br>> allow archive - -<br>> allow postscript - -<br>> deny self-extract No self-extracting archives No self-extracting archives allowed<br>> deny executable No executables No programs allowed<br>> #EXAMPLE: deny - x-dosexec No DOS executables No DOS programs allowed<br>> deny ELF No executables No programs allowed<br>> deny Registry No Windows Registry entries No Windows Registry files allowed<br>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>> cat archives.filename.rules.conf |grep exe<br>><br>> deny pretty\s+park\.exe$ "Pretty Park" virus "Pretty Park" virus<br>> deny happy99\.exe$ "Happy" virus "Happy" virus<br>> deny \.exe$ Windows/DOS Executable Executable DOS/Windows programs are<br>> dangerous in email<br>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>><br>> This is the ref to those files in MailScanner.conf<br>><br>> cat MailScanner.conf |grep ^Archives: |grep Rules<br>><br>> Archives: Filename Rules = %etc-dir%/archives.filename.rules.conf<br>> Archives: Filetype Rules = %etc-dir%/archives.filetype.rules.conf<br>><br>> Yes I am zipping the exe files when I send the mail.<br>><br>><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Joolee <<a href="mailto:mailscanner@joolee.nl" target="_blank">mailscanner@joolee.nl</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mailscanner@joolee.nl" target="_blank">mailscanner@joolee.nl</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> What is the contents of your (archive).filename/filetype.rules.conf ? And do you reference these files from your<br>> 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>><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>> On 27 August 2012 15:55, Ryan Braganza <<a href="mailto:ryan.virgo@gmail.com" target="_blank">ryan.virgo@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ryan.virgo@gmail.com" target="_blank">ryan.virgo@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> 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<br>> 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<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> --<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>> *_________________________________________________________________________________<br>> *<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>> * Someone wrote:<br>> "I understand that if you play a Microsoft Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages"<br>><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>> To which someone replied:* *<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>> "It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows Vista !"<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>> _________________________________________________________________________________*<br>><br>><br>> --<br>> MailScanner mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info" target="_blank">mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info" target="_blank">mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</a>><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>> <a href="http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner" target="_blank">http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner</a><br>><br>> Before posting, read <a href="http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting" target="_blank">http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting</a><br>><br>> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!<br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> MailScanner mailing list<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>> <a href="mailto:mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info" target="_blank">mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info" target="_blank">mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</a>><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>> <a href="http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner" target="_blank">http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner</a><br>><br>> Before posting, read <a href="http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting" target="_blank">http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting</a><br>><br>> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> --<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>> *_________________________________________________________________________________<br>> *<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>> * Someone wrote:<br>> "I understand that if you play a Microsoft Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages"<br>><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>> To which someone replied:* *<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>> "It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows Vista !"<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>> _________________________________________________________________________________*<br>><br>><br>><br><span style='color:#888888'><br><br><br>--<br>Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel <a href="tel:%2B32%2016%20397.525" target="_blank">+32 16 397.525</a><br>Interleuvenlaan 86, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax <a href="tel:%2B32%2016%20397.552" target="_blank">+32 16 397.552</a><br>***********************************************************************<br>* I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, *<br>* quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, ~., *<br>* stop, end, ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, KJOB, *<br>* ^X^X, :D::D, kill -9 1, kill -1 $$, shutdown, init 0, Alt-F4, *<br>* Alt-f-e, Ctrl-Alt-Del, Alt-SysRq-reisub, Stop-A, AltGr-NumLock, ... *<br>* ... 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