by on 2011-07-15 11:23:23

What is Mailsafe and how does it work?

ZoneAlarm's MailSafe feature detects e-mail attachments and warns the user about their presence. When a potentially dangerous attachment is detected (POP3 and IMAP protocols), ZoneAlarm "quarantines" it by changing its file extension so that it cannot be executed accidentally with its by default associated software.

For example, a file called TEST.BAT will be renamed TEST.ZL3, should the user chose to "quarantine" files with the BAT extension. That will prevent accidently execution of possible dangerous BAT file which could include malicious code. The file itself is not moved and will remain in its default directory. 

These "quarantined" files are not altered, so to restore the file functionality, simple renaming of the Mailsafe extension with its original file extension is sufficient.

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List of renamed file extensions used by ZoneAlarm Mailsafe

Originally, ZoneAlarm's Mailsafe included only 37 default file types, that were intercepted in attachments and renamed. These were mostly Windows system files, or files that could contain visual basic or java scripts (like Access databases). These 37 documented files were:
 

Mailsafe renamed file extensions Original file extensions
file extension ZL0 is renamed ADE file extension
file extension ZL1 ADP
file extension ZL2 BAS
file extension ZL3 BAT
file extension ZL4 CHM
file extension ZL5 CMD
file extension ZL6 COM
file extension ZL7 CPL
file extension ZL8 CRT
file extension ZL9 EXE
file extension ZLA HLP
file extension ZLB HTA
file extension ZLC INF
file extension ZLD INS
file extension ZLE ISP
file extension Z0 JS
file extension ZLF JSE
file extension ZLG LNK
file extension ZLH MDB
file extension ZLI MDE
file extension ZLJ MSC
file extension ZLK MSI
file extension ZLL MSP
file extension ZLM MST
file extension ZLN PCD
file extension ZLO PIF
file extension ZLP REG
file extension ZLQ SCR
file extension ZLR SCT
file extension ZLT URL
file extension Z1 VB
file extension ZLU VBE
file extension ZLV VBS
file extension ZLW WSC
file extension ZLX WSF
file extension ZLY WSH


With newer version, more possible dangerous file types were added to the database by default.

Mailsafe file extension Original file extension
file extension ZLZ

is renamed ASX file extension

file extension ZM0 DBX file extension
file extension ZM1 MDA file extension
file extension ZM2 MDZ file extension
file extension ZM3 NCH file extension
file extension ZM4 PRF file extension
file extension ZM5 SCF file extension
file extension ZM6 SHB file extension
file extension ZM8 MHT file extension
file extension ZM9 ZIP file extension
file extension ZMA RAR file extension
file extension ZMB DLL file extension
file extension ZMC EML file extension
file extension ZMD OCX file extension
file extension ZME SYS file extension


Because users could also add more file types they want to intercept by MailSafe, the program would continue with the file extension scheme on the renamed files (ZMF, ZMG, ..), but the default types always had the same file extension.

 

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zm8 - ZoneAlarm Mailsafe renamed MHT file

zm9 - ZoneAlarm Mailsafe renamed ZIP file

zma - ZoneAlarm Mailsafe renamed RAR archive

zmb - ZoneAlarm Mailsafe renamed DLL library

zmc - ZoneAlarm Mailsafe renamed EML file

zmd - ZoneAlarm Mailsafe renamed OCX data

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