[arachne] Re: illegal attachments?

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Hi Sam H.,
                      The majority of W$n users
don't even know what "safe hex" is !!
They wouldn't even get the pun. They
would just assume that you don't know
how to type.  :-}}}}    

Eric    

On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:14:14 -0500 "Samuel W. Heywood"
<sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 22:28 -0600, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote: 
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> > 
> > Sam,
> > This has been "standard operating procedure" for most email 
> > services for quite some time.  It was in response to the increase 
> in
> > number of virus/trojan malware being disseminated via email. 
> > Wiz
> > 
> > Glenn Gilbreath Jr.
> 
> 
> OK, but is this really necessary?  Don't most people examine batch 
> files
> to determine what they do before they run them?  Also, don't most 
> people
> do a virus scan and a spyware scan of ".exe" and ".com" files before
> they run them?
> 
> Are there really a lot of people out there who haven't even gotten 
> the 
> word about how it is smart to practice "safe hex"?
> 
> There are no drawbacks and downers in practicing "safe hex" because
> there is nothing in the practice of "safe hex" which detracts from 
> our experiencing the full passion and excitement of our magic 
> moments,
> etc.
> 
> Sam Heywood
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: 11/8/2008 9:47 PM
> > Subject: [arachne] illegal attachments?
> > 
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> > 
> > Hello:
> > 
> > Today I tried to email to my son an attachment being a perfectly
> > harmless and very useful DOS batch file.  The mailer daemon at 
> > my ISP bounced the email for reason that it contained an "illegal
> > attachment".
> > 
> > I fooled the mailer daemon simply by sending the same message and 
> > the same "illegal attachment" after changing the attachment's file
> > extension from ".bat" to ".plop".  The message and its attachment 
> > were sent successfully to the destination email address after I 
> had
> > renamed the bat file to a plop file.
> > 
> > BTW. I have discovered also that my ISP's mailer daemon will also 
> > bounce emails having attachments with ".com" and ".exe" 
> extensions.
> > 
> > In order to email those files I just change the extension names of 
> 
> > the attachments to some that are not commonly associated with 
> files
> > having executable code.  Then the attachments will sail right past 
> 
> > the stupid mailer deamon with no problem.
> >  
> > I wonder if a lot of other folks are experiencing nowadays with 
> > their respective ISP's the same kind of annoying problems caused 
> by 
> > the stupid mailer daemons. 
> > 
> > Sam Heywood  
> 
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> 
> 

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