[Esa-l]Sircam virus filter

David Collantes david at bus.ucf.edu
Wed Aug 1 09:11:58 PDT 2001


On 01/08/01 at 6:08pm, Michael Meltzer wrote:

|David Collantes wrote:
|
|> On 01/08/01 at 11:41am, Juan Manuel Calvo wrote:
|>
|> |I have found a very simple solution to the Sircam problem. Your
|> |procmail sanitizer allows defang the attachment but the users
|> |receives the email.
|>
|> SNIPPET
|>
|> I think that is a poor way to do things. I could easily modify SirCam and
|> make the rule above worthless. SirCam comes with double extensions,
|
|i had two SirCam's with only a single extension. May be this happens if the
|file from which SirCam takes the name for his own Attachment has no extension
|!?
|So only checking for double extension is mot enough.

That is why I poison .EXE's, .COM's and others. If poisoning is not an
option, then I mangle.

Cheers!

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