Executables

To protect against the possibility of virus infection, Forcepoint Email Security Cloud allows you to quarantine messages whose contents appear to contain scripts or executables, or with attachments with potentially dangerous file extensions.

Administrators can view quarantined messages later in a secure environment.

Select Quarantine messages containing scripts and executables to quarantine emails containing scripts and executable file attachments (such as EXE or BAT files).

Select Deliver all containing scripts and executables to allow email messages containing scripts and executable files.

To allow executables for certain users, domains, or groups, click Executable Exceptions. See Antivirus exceptions.

Warning: Forcepoint Email Security Cloud uses commercial antivirus (AV) engines to identify known viruses, and its own ThreatSeeker Intelligence technology to identify viruses for which AV vendors have not yet released a patch. However, even with multiple layers of protection, it is impossible to predict the types of exploit that may become available to malicious actors. We recommend that, where possible, email containing executable attachments be quarantined. If this is not appropriate for all users, best practice is to enforce this policy globally and use the Executable Exceptions option for specific users.

Quarantining messages containing scripts and executables

If you choose to block scripts and executables, messages containing any file whose contents appear to be executable are blocked, along with those with the following potentially dangerous file extensions: A6P, AC, ACR, ACTION, AIR, APK, APP, APPLESCRIPT, AWK, BAS, BAT, BIN, CGI, CHM, CMD, COM, CPL, CSH, DEK, DLD, DLL, DRV, DS, EBM, ELF, ESH, EXE, EZS, FKY, FRS, FXP, GADGET, GPE, GPU, HLP, HMS, HTA, ICD, IIM, INF, INS, INX, IPA, IPF, ISU, JAR, JS, JSE, JSX, KIX, KSH, LIB, LNK, MCR, MEL, MEM, MPX, MRC, MS, MSC, MSI, MSP, MST, MXE, OBS, OCX, PAF, PCD, PEX, PIF, PL, PLSC, PM, PRC, PRG, PVD, PWC, PYC, PYO, PY, QPX, RBX, RGS, ROX, RPJ, SCAR, SCPT, SCR, SCRIPT, SCT, SEED, SH, SHB, SHS, SPR, SYS, THM, TLB, TMS, U3P, UDF, VB, VBE, VBS, VBSCRIPT, VCARD, VDO, VXD, WCM, WIDGET, WORKFLOW, WPK, WS, WSC, WSF, WSH, XAP, XQT.