From: Pete Hunt Date: 19:21 on 16 Jun 2006 Subject: Mimesweeper Dear Mimesweeper, If you don't have a parser for a particular email attachment(1), can I suggest that you remove the option to grep the binary for things that might even remotely look like "naughty" words and then block the the attachment based upon whatever random fucking text strings you happen to find? (2) (1) MS Publisher file, so it's not _that_ obscure. (2) Yes, this is a user-configurable option. No, I have no control over the filter. Yes, I want to kill the filter admin (3). (3) "But how did you find the text strings in the binary?" Hatefully Pete
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: 19:34 on 16 Jun 2006 Subject: Re: Mimesweeper Pete Hunt wrote: > Dear Mimesweeper, > > If you don't have a parser for a particular email attachment(1), can I > suggest that you remove the option to grep the binary for things that > might even remotely look like "naughty" words and then block the the > attachment based upon whatever random fucking text strings you happen to > find? (2) > > (1) MS Publisher file, so it's not _that_ obscure. > (2) Yes, this is a user-configurable option. No, I have no control over > the filter. Yes, I want to kill the filter admin (3). > (3) "But how did you find the text strings in the binary?" > > Hatefully > > Pete For quite a while the HTML documentation of ActivePerl contained something dubious enough to make Symantec Antivirus to scream bloody murder. As far as I can remember, no, the doc didn't contain "How To Write a Virus in Win32 Perl in 10 Ten Easy Steps".
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