On Wed, October 28, 2015 6:55 am, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> We are receiving LOTS of emails that contain empty XLS or DOC documents
> with
> embedded virus macros. These are getting past SPAMASSASSIN, Clamav and
> Kaspersky.
Just a word of advise to everybody: stay away from Kaspersky (unless you
want to submit to KGB). Do your own homework (web search, etc) and keep in
mind what everybody says: there is no retirement from secret services
(KGB, CIA, MI5, NSA, ...) other than dead, feet first dead.
I guess I see everywhere the confirmation of the saddest history lesson
that people never learn history lessons ;-(
Valeri
>
> I'm trying to write a filter for EXIM to block these emails but I need to
> know
> a good, quick, command-line to detect an empty doc with a macro.
>
> Is there anything available that I can use??
>
> I have managed to write a PERL script to detect empty xls xlsx, doc and
> docx
> files but I cannot detect whether they have any macros embedded
>
> Gary
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Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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