[Esa-l] Over sensitive poisoning

[John D. Hardin]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Jason D. Jordan wrote:

> Like most of you I recently added
> *.[a-z0-9]+.[a-z0-9]+
> 
> to my POISONED file.
> 
> I fear this may be acting a little oversensitive.

It is. I've modified it for the entry on the home page.

Try:

*.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9][a-z0-9].[a-z0-9]+

...which is still pretty global. 

You could try to limit it to the really dangerous ones:

*.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9][a-z0-9].(exe|vb[es]|chm|mdb)

...but that may not be sufficiently proactive.

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