Malware (Was: Re: (no subject))

[Kevin Brown]

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, .<xxx> 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.