full-disclosure - Fwd: YOUR PAYPAL.COM ACCOUNT EXPIRES

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Message-ID: <96AB0F4ACC33EF41B0A76870053FF060028CDDCD@cmh0401mai01.amr.stercomm.com>
From: Nicholas_Brown at stercomm.com (Brown, Nicholas)
Subject: Fwd: YOUR PAYPAL.COM ACCOUNT EXPIRES

Bojan Zdrnja Wrote:
...
>That is why you should implement content blocking at your e-mail server.
>There is absolutely no reason to allow .scr files to go around. If you had
>this blocked, it would stop MiMail-I without AV updates.
>Also, note that this attachment has double extension, which should also be
>automatically blocked.
...

It should be pointed out that blocking files with multiple extensions is
not good idea, as this would interfere with lots of legitimate,
non-executeable file types, such as .tar.gz.