Re: Re: Anybody Recognize These Uploads?

[Christopher Hicks <chicks () chicks net>]

On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Christopher Hicks wrote:
> > We've never had e-mail virus troubles with the ones that stuck with
> > Netscape, Eudora, or switched to Linux desktops.  The only solution for
> > the Outlook diehards was filtering at the server, but that only helps
> > after the anti-virus vendors have had long enough to get a fix out.  
>
> Not really, most of the common executable types can be filtered without
> worrying about signatures.  If you're allowing unzipped executables in,
> you probably need your head examined at this point in time for anything
> that's not a pure Linux shop, and even then, wine's getting a bit too
> good...  If you're allowing .pif and .scr, well...

True enough.  We have been using MailScanner ( www.mailscanner.info ) for
virus checking and spam checking, but it filters on configurable
extensions as well.  It comes with a reasonable set of defaults that
includes the above.  I can see that most would differentiate virus
checking and extention filtering, but for me they all came in the same
ball of wax.

-- 
</chris>

Programming is a Dark Art, and it will always be. The programmer is
fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe:
entropy and human stupidity. They're not things you can always
overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.
                -Damian Conway, Perl God

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