| protector scans e-mail attachments in order to identify those that could (by nature of their type) contain viruses or other undesirable content, and replaces them with a warning message. Protector is designed to be used on a unix mail gateway server MS Windows clients by way of a POP3 service. Typically, protector blocks
DOS or Windows executables, DLLS etc
Files with double extensions like
"picture.gif.exe"
Visual basic (VB) scripts
Word documents that contain macros
unrecognised file types
... etc ... |