Re: Anyone stripping .ZIP files?
From: Susan (susan_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/03/04
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:07:06 -0800
used to be that way around here, too, until we got hit by one virus so badly
that we had to shut down internet email for a day and a half and it took 3
days to clean up the mess...I finally got a go-ahead from the powers that be
to block any executable file...have not had one email-borne virus infection
since then...
"Matthew Kitchin" <matthewkitchin_public@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uwNrTGLAEHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> "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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