Re: Anyone stripping .ZIP files?

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From: Susan (susan_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:44:20 -0800

we quarantine zip files at our gateway with Tumbleweed...thank goodness we
do...it really saved us from this last round of viruses...ask your users if
they'd rather risk bringing down the entire corporate network when you get
infected with one of those that are circulating now...

<jgilbert@eaglecreek.com> wrote in message
news:5b9301c4009e$c53da200$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks Drew!
> Yep, I'm doing the same thing on our CheckPoint Firewall.
> The flack I'm getting centers around some of the Sales
> support people saying our Sales Reps "Can't be taught to
> rename Zip files, even with step-by-step instructions" I
> haven't been able to find a way to quarantine attachments
> on the Firewall or the Trend VirusWall, only strip them.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >We are stripping ZIP files, but doing it through our AV
> software (Panda) we
> >also block exe, js, ws, scr, com, pif, and chm. -Drew
> >
> >"John Gilbert" <jgilbert@eaglecreek.com> wrote in message
> >news:598f01c40098$2011e850$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Hi All,
> >> In the wake of all these new worms, I started stripping
> >> ZIP files at the firewall, and just got blasted by bunch
> >> of complaints. I wrote a step-by-step file extension
> >> rename document, but they don't seem to want to follow
> >> instructions.
> >>
> >> I am looking for other options. Is there a way
> >> to "quarantine" all ZIP attachments in Exchange 2000?
> >>
> >> Any other suggestions?
> >>
> >> Thanks!!!!
> >>
> >> ~John
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >