On 08/10/16 16:42, Gary Schrock wrote:

Anyone know if there's a list of file extensions that msu's email blocks?  doc appears to be blocked, although docx isn't blocked, just kinda wondering what else might be.  The message you get when they're blocked refers to a msu page on virus's that doesn't exist anymore.

I'm not particularly surprised that doc is blocked, I was actually a little surprised that the documents that someone in my department was trying to send were still doc and not docx.  I was a little surprised that given doc is blocked, docx isn't.  (Of course, now I'll probably have everyone annoyed with me when the msu mail team realizes that it wasn't and should have been, and fixes that problem :) ).

(It's also a little annoying when the block message says it's being blocked because of a virus, and it's not really true.)

550 Virus found see http://help.msu.edu/mail/virus/ or call 517-432-6200

And of course, that web link doesn't exist anymore.

I just talked with one of my faculty about exactly this.  He had the
same problem trying to send a file.  As a test, we renamed the
.doc file in question to ".d" and still the same error, though two
other .doc files went through.  I can't see the file in question, but
this person doesn't have a history of viri, etc.

So I think there is an intermittent false-positive viri detection problem
at the moment, unless the Perseids are bringing viri.  ;-)

--STeve Andre'