Re: Blocking e.g. EXE

"Alex Ascherl - Qmailrocks" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.qmail.scanner
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 
>Alex Ascherl - Qmailrocks wrote:
>> Hello I´m new to the list.
>>
>> I want to know if there is a way to block e.g. exe files 
>which are renamed to e.g. .txt?
>> I know how to block exe files, but what if some "nasty" 
>users rename them?
>>
>> There are commercial products on the market which can handle this.
>>
>> Can qmail-scanner do this too?
>>   
>It already does that!
>
>Try renaming a EXE to .GIF and send it through. It will be blocked.
>
I already tried this.

I tested with Putty. I renamed putty.exe to putty.gif and sent it ...
It get through. If i send putty.exe it will be blocked.

Any hints?

Alex

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