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Re: "Cisco Release Of Goner Worm Raises Eyebrows" (Newsbytes)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hermann Wecke)
Fri Dec 14 22:13:52 2001

Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 03:11:29 +0000 (GMT)
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, ben hubbard wrote:
> It does (should?) however, have the ability to drop/refuse attachments
> (possibly over a certain size) - like Mr. Li's 54Kb gift to the list.

isn't it easier to stick a procmail recipe into the NANOG mail system
dropping double extension files and other highly dangerous extensions,
such as .scr, .lnk, .com, .dll, .pif and others???

Also, for a low volume server, this should be a good choice:
http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/sanitizer-intro.html



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