[Esd-l] regarding poisoned files...

[Mark_Saunders]

Oh...I see it now..I assumed (bad mistake, I know) that because of your
recommended entries in poisoned that exclude doc & xls files, that dot files
aren't addressed.
If I had spotted the code before, it would have been more clear.
(do[ct]|xl[swt]|p[po]t|rtf|pps) explains this.
Thanks!

Howard Lowndes wrote:

> On Thu, 23 May 2002, John D. Hardin wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Mark_Saunders wrote:
> >
> > > It appears that entries in the poisoned file...even though they aren't
> > > set up in MANGLE_EXTENSIONS, are being poisoned.
> > > Did I miss something?
> >
> > Microsoft Office documetns are "special" and are subject to poisoning
> > even if they are not being mangled. That's the only exception.
>
> This is confusing and is contrary to the doco.
>
> "The current version of the sanitizer only checks the poisoned filenames
> list if the filename extension appears in the MANGLE_EXTENSIONS list.
> Filenames whose extensions do not appear in the MANGLE_EXTENSIONS list
> cannot be poisoned. This will change in the next major version of the
> sanitizer. "
>
> >
> > Can you provide me a sample?
> >
> > --
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> >   768: 0x41EA94F5 - A3 0C 5B C2 EF 0D 2C E5  E9 BF C8 33 A7 A9 CE 76
> >  1024: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C  AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79
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