Attachments, what is blocked and Why?
One of the primary destructive forces that organizations face is the eMail message with either a VIRUS attached or with a destructive script in an otherwise inocent looking file attachment. Tangent Barracuda stops all know VIRUS eMail and is updated instantly whenever a new virus is discovered. Tangent Barracuda also blocks most types of file attachments that can be used in a destructive manner. Other then ZIP files for some domains we do not BLOCK or [QUAR] any other ARCHIVE type files (ARC, LZH, SIT, etc.) or any document files (DOC, XLS, TXT, PDF, PPT, etc.). We also do not BLOCK or [QUAR] any image files (GIF, JPG, BMP, etc.) What follows is the complete list of all file attachments that we do BLOCK. If someone needs to send one of these files to your domain they can rename the file (ie: file.pif to file.pi_) which the receiver can then rename back to the correct extension. The following attachment types are BLOCKED. If these were in your eMail it is 99.99% certain that it was a wo
Related Questions
- There is a message in my email that reads, "Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments: attachment name" or "". Is my computer infected with a virus?
- Why notifications are not sent when the message contained both blocked and infected attachments?
- What types of attachments are blocked by the UHI e-mail system?
