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Re: Email virus protection

  • From: Crist Clark
  • Date: Thu Aug 21 12:13:38 2003

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                               [email protected]