Computing Support for Ecology and Evolution

MailScanner denies the files with these extensions

• These are known to be dangerous in almost all cases.
  [.reg], [.chm], [.cnf], [.hta], [.ins], [.jse], [.lnk], [.ma[dfgmqrstvw]], [.pif],
  [.scf], [.sct], [.shb], [.shs], [.vbe], [.vbs], [.wsc], [.wsf], [wsh], [.xnk]

• These 2 added by popular demand - Very often used by viruses
  [.com], [.exe]

• These are very dangerous and have been used to hide viruses
  [.scr], [.bat], [.cmd], [.cpl], [.mhtml]

• Deny filenames ending with CLASSID's
  

• Deny filenames with lots of contiguous white space in them.
  Example: [A Presentation for Ecoloy and Evolution.ppt]

• Deny all other double file extensions. This catches any hidden filenames.
  Example: [Presetation.doc.pdf]