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Date:      Sat, 3 May 2003 14:05:00 +0100 (BST)
From:      "Danny Horne" <danny@clifftop.net>
To:        "Dragoncrest" <dragoncrest@voyager.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting spam assassin to capture viruses?
Message-ID:  <1094.192.168.1.10.1051967100.squirrel@webmail.clifftop.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030503070833.00a04e40@pop.voyager.net>
References:  <5.2.0.9.2.20030503070833.00a04e40@pop.voyager.net>

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Dragoncrest was once thought to have said:
> 	Is there a way I can adjust by hand spam assassin's config file or one of
> the files it uses to detect spam so that it also will look for attachments
> and if it finds anything with the extension of pif, scr, exe, or com, it
> will automatically flag it as spam and toss it in my spam folder?  I want
> to set it to block certain types of attachments on email.  Or would that be
> better done with procmail?  Qpopper?  Just curious what's the best way to
> block these.  I figure if spam assassin will do it, I'll just adjust it so
> that it takes care of this for me.  Thanks.
>
I use this procmail recipe for that -
:0 fhw
* B ?? ^Content-type: (audio|application)
* B ?? name=.*\.(com|exe|bat|scr|pif|hta|shs|vb[es]|ws[fh])\>
* Subject: *\/.+
| formail -I "Subject: POSSIBLE VIRUS: $MATCH"



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