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RE: Self Decrypting Archive in PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Fri Jul 21 18:13:39 2000
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:59:21 -0700
To: Meyer Wolfsheim <wolf@priori.net>,
"'cryptography@c2.net'" <cryptography@c2.net>
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
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At 02:36 PM 7/21/00 -0400, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
>Nope, you are definately not the only one. I usually recommend to my
>customers that they block all executable attachments at the mail
>server. Problem solved.
What about *compressed* .exes? (and .bat and .vbs and .doc-macros etc) I
suppose a mail server could decompress and look for executables. Do any?
No substitute for educated humans. No excuse for executable content
in .docs.
