[Wikipedia-l] "Upload of file BritanyUndergound.exe - Britany Spears Underground

[Daniel Mayer]

On Tuesday 16 July 2002 04:04 pm, you wrote:
>  From the upload log:
>
> "Upload of file BritanyUndergound.exe - Britany Spears Underground Nude
> Video"
>
> This is probably a _bad_thing_ -- some sysop should delete this ASAP. (I
> am not a sysop).
> We should also disable the download of anything with a .com or .exe file
> extension (and of course do the same in the beta test code).
>
> Neil

I tottally agree -- but instead of banning certain file extensions I say we 
should think about only allowing certain ones. But at any rate, .exe and .zip 
should /never/ be allowed to be uploaded. 

Also, is there an efficient way for the software to check uploads, for 
example, to see if in fact a file with an image extension is really an image 
and not an exe or mp3 in disguise? 

--maveric149