working a virus checking material filter for each mail before it reaches
the mail reader is an important line of defense versus virus outbreaks
and in protecting the (quite possibly not security conscious) recipients,
or their mail reader programs or laptop or computer natural environment.
not all malware is passed by e-mail. quite a few viruses or worms use different
mechanisms to propagate, this includes www, sharing disks or as a result of peer-to-peer
'contents' sharing, social engineering, or maybe a memory important or a cd
brought-in within a pocket or distributed by magazines and software publishing
houses may well provide in the virus;
content filtering mailer can't shield internal hosts unless of course incoming
smtp (tcp dst port 25) is restricted with the firewall to official mailers
only. similarly external earth deserves protection from maybe infected
internal hosts, so outgoing smtp (tcp dst port 25 yet again, outgoing this time)
must be restricted to official mailers. (use traditional tcp port 587 for
mail submission from roaming customers.)
similarly, if mail viewers can fetch mail from external mailboxes
(pop3, imap), the smtp mail gateway can not secure them. one resolution
may be to give a centralized fetchmail services to customers that might need entry
to exterior mailboxes, and feed such mail for the typical subject matter filtering
mailer, even while blocking other unofficial entry to external pop3 and imap
servers at a firewall.
even in e-mail, malware might be carried in encrypted or scrambled sort,
or just as a plain text, by using social engineering ways to persuade
recipient to fetch or activate malware.
it's not at all possible to avoid person shooting himself while in the foot, or
to avoid a committed man or woman to transfer malware. there is certainly a tradeoff
in attempting to keep e-mail handy, and defending against threats.
the primary line of defense (mail content filtering, firewall) have to be
complemented by defense mechanisms with the regional user's desktop laptop.
this involves virus scanners run on pcs,
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accomplishing backups, and educating customers.
malware does not have to play through the rules. nothing at all prevents malware
from generating a syntactically incorrect mail,
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to some host ignoring mx in addition to a records, to provide forged smtp facts
or forged mail header, to poison dns, probably even to make use of forged supply
ip handle.
information filter with virus scanner tries to make a decision in the event the mail beneath
consideration will, or can, contribute to any awful effects on the recipient
computer,
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is made use of by recipients. this implies that while some mail could be decoded
(by adhering to specifications) into a harmless text, it might be decoded by
some broken mua or archiver into a virus or exploit, or trigger a mua bug
or vulnerability for the period of decoding, or for the period of exhibiting a message. exterior
archivers/unpackers referred to as by amavisd-new might be fairly easy to
trick into not extracting certain archive members, as a result hiding malicious code.
see malformed electronic mail venture,
bypassing
content filtering whitepaper, declude's record of vulnerabilities,
niscc
vulnerability advisory 380375/mime.
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solving this condition would have to have content material filter with virus scanner
to emulate all identified (and mysterious?!) mail viewers inside way they respond
to malformed mail. whereas amavisd-new and other content material filters attempt to
anticipate some prevalent challenges, mainly those practiced by at present
active viruses, there exists no guarantee that this strategy is constantly
successful.
even now one can find combinations of viruses and virus scanners (e.g.
yaha.k + sophos) that fail to be detected
due to a malformed mime header,
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pondering criteria!) by mime::parser, yet certain mail viewers decode
it in a different way, forming a virus. it normally assists to work with a lot more than one particular
virus scanner (e.g. clamd in conjunction with
some industrial virus scanner).
rfc 2046 defines a method to split sending 1 document into various
e-mail messages, which may then be reassembled (immediately or manually)
by mua. the content-type value to start looking for is message/partial
(and similarly: message/external-body). checking mail fragments
individually for viruses cannot reliably detect viruses, which only get
reassembled right into a recognizable form by the recipient's mail reader.
most virus scanners on the mta stage (together with amavisd-new and all
other variants of amavis*) examine each and every mail independently from other messages,
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so the only protection to this menace may be to ban these mime content-types
(see $banned_filename_re setting in amavisd.conf), or by disabling
auto-reassembly at mail visitors, or running a virus checker tightly
connected with mua.
blocking the mime content variety message/external-body might possibly sound handy,
even though the mechanism shouldn't be substantially totally different from letting user freely browse
the internet or completely interpret html mail messages, so if your later is permitted,
it likely isn't going to make sense to treat message/external-body differently.
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