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Re: Email virus protection


From: "Crist Clark" <crist.clark () globalstar com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:10:48 -0700


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                               crist.clark () globalstar com


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