[Esa-l][OT] Attachment blocking

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Tue Jul 24 12:05:18 PDT 2001


On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Brent Wallis wrote:

> In mosts cases, a simple ACL on a Squid proxy server will do this
> for you. Where my clients have allowed it and where we have the
> sanitizer in place, we have blocked access to hotmail.com and
> yahoo.com for all users via squid ACL's...works a treat.

I've just done the same for hotmail, though I'm reluctant to blackhole
all of yahoo or MSN. Can anybody who actually uses these services give
us some idea of a less global ACL that would block just their webmail
services?

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