[Esa-l]Sircam with application/mixed

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Thu Aug 2 19:22:20 PDT 2001


On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Lee Howard wrote:

> If the sanitizer is defanging attachments, then it requires more
> than just a "click" to defang and run the attachment.  To me,
> you'd have to be quite a bone-head to defang and run an attachment
> coming from "hahaha at sexyfun.net"... which, since the av program
> catches it, will get /dev/null'd anyway.

Even in this day and age not everyone is running AV software, and
a percentage of those who do aren't keeping the signatures current.

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