[61034] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email virus protection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Crist Clark)
Thu Aug 21 12:11:30 2003
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:10:48 -0700
From: "Crist Clark" <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
Reply-To: Crist.Clark@globalstar.com
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
"Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Jack Bates wrote:
>
> Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
> > We dont filter by file type.. people do send exe's legitimately!
> >
>
> You can zip the exe, or you can rename the exe, or you can ask not to
> have exe's filtered at all.
>
> Sometimes solutions can be simple.
Unless your AV software has a clue, like most do, and unzips archives and
see what's inside.
And thank goodness they do or else the Mimail (with its message.zip
attachment) could have been worse.
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Crist J. Clark crist.clark@globalstar.com
