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Re: Catching possible Viral content

2002-05-23 13:07:07
On Thu, 23 May 2002, mike wrote:

 I am trying to get procmail to filter out any possible virus content based
 on attatched file extension (.exe .pif .vbs .vbe   etc etc).

 Does anyone have any suggestions on filtering out potential viral
 attatchments?

Procmail alone cannot reliably detect malicious file attachments.

Take a look at
http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html

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