[Esa-l] *.exe has been added to the recommended poison list

[John Hardin]

Okay, this tears it:

    http://news.com.com/2100-1001-900050.html

Due to the fact that Klez is being parasitized by other viruses, and
that so many worms now use randomly-named .EXE file attachments, I have
added *.EXE to the recommended default poison list file. This is in
keeping with my default-secure (some may say "default-paranoid") stance
for the sanitizer as a whole.

If you wish to continue using the recommended poison list without *.EXE,
you will have to script removing that filespec as part of your download
process.

This change is effective immediately.

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 John Hardin KA7OHZ    ICQ#15735746    http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/
 jhardin at impsec.org                        pgpk -a jhardin at impsec.org
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 1024: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C  AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79
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