On 9/28/10 2:05 AM, "Dennis Peterson" <denni...@inetnw.com> wrote:

> On 9/27/10 11:55 PM, Török Edwin wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:36:15 +0200
> 
>> If you want to reject by content, you can do that as well (only for
>> nonencrypted archives of course) by writing a signature for your
>> filetype, and treating it as if it was a virus.
> 
> Rather than depend on file extensions that are rather meaningless, it seems a
> better idea to build a Kessler signature file using file signatures from this
> list:
> 
> http://www.garykessler.net/library/file_sigs.html
>

Amavisd-new gets around that by calling file and adding the type returned as
meta-data that can be matched. So, embed an .emf with no extension in an
.xlsx?  Amavis will recognize it as an .emf in a zip archive.

-- 
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281

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