Re: Anyone stripping .ZIP files?

From: Matthew Kitchin (matthewkitchin_public_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 17:53:33 -0600

"ask your users if they'd rather risk bringing down the entire corporate
network"

Ask my users? They would bring down the entire network just to allow their
'joke of the day' emails to get through. They would destroy 130 servers if
it meant they could breaking new alerts. I wish we could force them to
understand things like this but they don't. I just get to be the bad guy who
doesn't allow zips any more. It's almost like they think I enjoy it or
something. I guess that's just the pleasure of our jobs......

"Susan" <susan@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:%23JVPXBLAEHA.2316@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> 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
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >.
> > >
>
>

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