There's also "anomy", a perl script that does all this and more. I am
using it via procmail/postfix and other than false alarming (warning
message) on the Mandrake list coz its footer gets included as an
attached text document. It picks up the usual virii attachments quite
reliably, defangs html mail (embedded scripts etc in the html) and also
perl/shell scripts etc (inserts an "exit" statement and comment at the
top of the file so it cant be run by accident!) It can also call a true
viris scanner to scan documents you want to let through, but need
checking internally. The documents have some discussion on performance
tuning, which from memory was quite acceptable considering what it is
doing. A good first line for Linux users and

BillK

On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 19:58, Denis HAVLIK wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Bob PuffNLE wrote:
>
> + Postfix -can- bounce all messages with certain file extensions. I'm doing it right now on my system. So far, no user complaints - they are thankful they don't have to
> + worry as much about virus attachments, expecially the outlook users.
>
> I would not count on file extensions, if I can use "file" or something
> equivalent to do the file recognition. Then again, windows does count on
> file extensions, right?
>
>
>
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