I think I need to make my original question more clear. What I'm concerned about is automatic propagation of viruses where a virus takes over someone else's email (Outlook) and propagates itself by sending an executable attachment to everyone in that person's outbox. The virus spreads when the recipient unwittingly opens the attachment. I'm not looking for a technological solution to internal sabotage, and I don't object to people distributing executable content -- I just don't want it happening automatically. I want to set things so that executable content cannot be sent to someone on my network without manual intervention. What I want to happen is that if someone tries to send a file that has an extension that is either an executable itself or matches any of the extensions that are auto-associated with executables, the recipient gets the message with the attachment removed, and a note telling him that the sender has tried to send him executable content, and advising the recipient to contact the sender and ask him to rename the file with a different extension. Since this requires collaboration between the sender and the recipient it will prevent in large part attacks like the "I LOVE YOU" virus, while still allowing people to exchange information that they need to do their jobs. My question is, Is there a LINUX-based solution that will do this? - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
