Maybe if you were more clear about this being a 2.0.6.10 Beta enhancement???  Can I hear an Hallelujah!!!

I was in the middle of going through a month's worth of blocked vulnerabilities to extract Mail From's for building an ALLOWVULNERABILITIESFROM list, but choosing which ones to turn off would be much easier.  My list would at a minimum include the following three to exclude from being checked:
Outlook CR Vulnerability
Outlook Boundary Space Gap Vulnerability
Outlook MIME Segment in MIME Preamble Vulnerability
I have identified multiple false positives for each of these, especially the Outlook CR Vulnerability.  I will probably still complete my review just to be safe.  I'm not aware of any of these except for the HTML Object Data Vulnerability being associated with actual viruses (warning, I certainly could be wrong).  The HTML Object Data Vulnerability is tagged with both of my virus scanners so it may be somewhat redundant.

There has long been a switch for turning off the Partial Vulnerability and I have run with this turned off for some time due to false positives (you can trip this by checking a single box in Outlook, and some do).  That one is set with the following:
BANPARTIAL    OFF
And just another word of caution.  Although I am not aware of these vulnerabilities being exploited, and although I believe that some or maybe even all of them have been patched for some time, the choice to create these at the time was a good choice because you can't effectively design a virus scanner to do things like extract attachments hidden in headers that are only displayed as the result of error correction within Outlook clients.  So if such exploits do surface, and if they are successful, your Declude Virus config may very well not detect them.

If others are aware of any other common forms of false positives, please do share.  Here's the list from the site:
HTML Object Data Vulnerability
    ALLOWVULNERABILITY    OBJECTDATA

Outlook CR Vulnerability
    ALLOWVULNERABILITY    OLCR

Outlook Space Gap Vulnerability
    ALLOWVULNERABILITY    OLSPACEGAP

Outlook Blank Folding Vulnerability
    ALLOWVULNERABILITY    OLBLANKFOLDING

Outlook MIME Header Vulnerability
    ALLOWVULNERABILITY    OLMIMEHEADER

Outlook MIME Segment in MIME Preamble Vulnerability
    ALLOWVULNERABILITY    OLMIMESEGMIMEPRE

Outlook MIME Segment in MIME Postamble Vulnerability
    ALLOWVULNERABILITY    MIMESEGMIMEPOST

Outlook Long Boundary Vulnerability
    ALLOWVULNERABILITY    OLLONGBOUNDARY

Outlook Boundary Space Gap Vulnerability
    ALLOWVULNERABILITY    OLBOUNDARYSPACEGAP

Outlook Long File Name Vulnerability
    ALLOWVULNERABILITY    OLLONGFILENAME

Matt






Nick wrote:
Does anyone know or have a list of the vulnerabilities that are a 
real problem and should be blocked or conversely the vulnerabilities 
that are not a virus/worm threat?

Thanks!

-Nick


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