RE: [squid-users] Blocking harmful jpegs/MIME types

>
> I like this idea :)
> However, blocking all jpegs wouldn't be the best thing to do..
> One way to solve this is to write a redirector that redirects
> all http requests with an url that ends with .jpg to a local
> cgi script. The scripts fetches the jpg-file, verifies that
> it is harmless and hands it to squid. In case it contains
> something bad another image is sent to squid instead.
>

This will only partially work since it doesn't matter what the JPEG's
extension is. You can give it a tiff or gif extension or who knows what
elese, it will still be treated as a jpeg by Windows.

I repeat, use a virus scanner that can detect them.

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