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Date:	Thu, 03 Jan 2002 12:46:06 -0500
From:	John Peacock <jpeacock AT rowman DOT com>
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To:	"Stoddard, Isaac A" <Isaac DOT Stoddard AT SW DOT Boeing DOT com>
CC:	"'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: announcements trapped by anti-viral filter
References:	<B08DF4D9C2673845A504D4873E75859608686FCB AT XCH-SE-20 DOT tx DOT boeing DOT com>

"Stoddard, Isaac A" wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Our corporate anti-viral filters traps cygwin-announce now. Someone has
> decided that (imagine the punctuation) "setup dot exe" is a potential virus
> vector and all list-mailed messages containing it as a character string are
> automatically blocked. Hence, I can no longer receive cygwin-announce.
> 
> Our filters can't be the only ones blocking you guys (and other good folks'
> news) from reaching us. Would someone at your site be
> interested/able/willing to change the standard announcement text to avoid
> mentioning that executable?

Quality anti-viral filters should only block ATTACHEMENTS named "something dot 
exe" not just the mention of it.  My suggestion is to get a new anti-virus 
program or ask your anti-virus admin to be less strident about blocking 
text-only messages.  This is almost certainly a "stupid admin" trick, not a 
default setting in your anti-virus (or more likely firewall) config.

John

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