Isn't part of security the person. If I receive an email from an unknown that has an attachment I delete it. If I'm expecting a .doc or .xls and I know the sender I assume it is safe. "Eric \"Shubes\"" wrote: I saw one mail admin that blocked .xls and .doc extensions too. After all, they can contain macros that can cause damage. :( To me, that's excessive. I kind of doubt that you're blocking these extensions, Craig. Where does it end? Craig White wrote: > I've been doing this for a number of years now and I don't recall a > single instance when it was necessary for a user to get an attachment > that was of a type (exe, com, pif, bat, scr, vbs and there's some more). > > In a world where users do what users do, they can't be trusted not to > blindly open things. > > Yes, Outlook 2K3 and 2K will not allow them to open those files but you > can change the security settings to get around that. > > Older versions of Outlook, etc. aren't likely to have all of the > safeguards in place. > > Craig > > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 23:37 -0700, Kevin Brown wrote: >> Nothing wrong with an exe getting through. I, on occasion, send things >> to myself that are small executables (maybe its a perl script wrapped up >> with par, or a self executing zip file). Outlook, being the jacked up >> program that it is, just flat out blocks them. >> >> Blindly blocking all .exe, .zip, . attachments is just an idiotic >> knee-jerk reaction. Much like banning violent video games because a few >> of the millions that play commit an act of excessive violence. >> >>> I think that if an exe attachment gets through an e-mail system to the >>> end user, the battle is already lost. Whether they opened it or not is >>> sort of immaterial. Users will do whatever users do. >>>> One of my clients got an email to them from them and it had an .exe >>>> attachment. Fortunately, they called me before opening it. Same deal, >>>> though. >> --------------------------------------------------- -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss - - - - - - - Keith Smith - - - - - - - http://travelingcheese.com/search_engine/increase-search-engine-traffic.html - - - - - - - --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail.