Amavis to detect .exe files in zipped attachments

Michael Dukelsky amavism at mail.ru
Tue Apr 2 17:43:46 CEST 2013


Hi,

On 02.04.2013 17:32, polloxx wrote:

> We'd like to block zipped attachmets which contain a .exe file.
> What is the easiest (and fasted) way to accomplish this using Amavis?

First check if .exe extension is not commented out in
$banned_filename_re definition, then check that 'zip' is not commented
out in @decoders definition in your amavisd.conf. This is enough.
"Filename banning" is in fact a misnomer because when you switch on
banning files with .exe extension, the file content is also checked, so
if an executable has for example a .pdf extension, it will be banned.

Best regards,
Michael Dukelsky


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