Re: Blocking e.g. EXE
Jason Haar <[email protected]>
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| Organization | Trimble Navigation Ltd. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Alex Ascherl - Qmailrocks wrote: > >> 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. >> > Sorry I did wrong. I renamed to putty.zip and it get through. > If I name it putty.gif it will NOT come through. > > But why works ZIP? > > Because a lot of zip files are actually self-installing. i.e. they are actually EXE's. So it can't treat that as suspicious as there are just too many valid examples that have that characteristic -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642