I don't think opening up a live FTP server on a network is a good security
trade-off for allowing *.exe files through the URLScan filter. In my
opinion, opening up the FTP server poses more of a security risk. And since
many people customize their Citrix apps before deploying them to clients
and/or employees, going directly to Citrix for the download doesn't always
work either.

Perhaps a better solution would be to ZIP the Citrix Client but not make it
self-extracting, so that it has the *.zip extension instead of *.exe. Then
you could allow *.zip to pass through the URLScan filter while still
blocking executables.

Thoughts?

Jon Bonner


-----Original Message-----
From: dumbwabbit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 11:13 AM
To: Bonner, Jon; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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Subject: RE: URLScan


Hmm, I would NOT recommend opening up the .exe
extension.
Rather, you may want to consider redirecting them to
an FTP site, either your own, or the Citrix download
location (if there is one, sorry I don't know, never
used this client).
Baaaaaad security risk to allow .exe
just my 
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