[arachne] Re: illegal attachments?

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On Sun, November 9, 2008 1:14 am, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

>
> 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?


Nope. They don't. Most people don't even know what the file extensions
mean. Batch files, what batch files? Anything sent as an attachment is
suspect to the ISP's because people for the most part are ignorant. Email
is a can of worms for ISP's, rife with infection and trouble.

Sam Ewalt


>> -----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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