[arachne] Re: illegal attachments?

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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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