2009/9/5 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:28 PM, David Gerard<dger...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Although his actions were IMO dickish, he has some point: is there any
>> reason to allow .exe links on WMF sites? Is there a clean method to
>> disable them? Is this a bad idea for any reason? What should default
>> settings be in MediaWiki itself? etc., etc.

> http://markmail.org/message/6zsebtdrahmwzs3s
> What once was rubbish is no more? :)


*cough*

I do like your note from then:

> A while back I ran clamav against all 'executable' looking external links and 
> found one nasty file. It would be really nice if the mechanism that updates 
> externalinks table spat out a running log of external link additions and 
> removals that we could hook an ongoing scanner into.


Simple matter of coding, then? :-)


- d.

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