Re: Can a MVP and someone from Hotmail comment why .mdb attachment

Chris, TC and Jeff

I am a complete respecter of security issues having safeguarded for more
years than I wish to recall financial, defence and research environments by
running secure UNIX environments.

The question Jeff answered me was relating to office systems (in this case
Access .mdb attachments failing). It was quite an ethical answer.

The problem rests with Administrators who instead of allowing files that are
virus checked (especially by their own server based virus checkers) to pass
through their email systems are simply going for the soft option and banning
all attachments (with e.g. .mdb extensions).

In most cases the file attachment will at the receipient end be virus
checked before it is downloaded or after downloading on the recipient's PC.

In all my years of administration I empowered users and enabled their
productivity not hampered them.It may be more tedious in Administration time
and a higher budget but after all what use are the computers with purely
Administrators if users cannot work.

Microsoft products are excellent for users and it sadly continues to be a
UNIX against Micorosoft battle that is causing everyone the grief.

Thanks to all of you anyway for your comments.

Until the egos of some of the UNIX CEOs reach a point of human reality (in
that Microsoft isn't going away as the dominant desktop choice) and the frank
realisation that there is room for UNIX in the 'medium to big iron' market
but not on the desktop.

More power to Microsoft and realistic IT companies and administrators.

Thanks

Jay

"Chris Mills" wrote:

> The purportedly respectable Jeff Conrad MVP, has posted on his website how to
> crack most all aspects of Microsforft Access security. In a security
> newsgroup, this would seem to be a conflict of ethics.
>
> That's what I said. Jeff Conrad, purported MVP, has become a cracker by his
> associations.
>
> I think Jeff Conrad, and by association his kind, sucks and does no service to
> this security newsgroup.
>
> Chris Mills
>
> "Jeff Conrad" <jeffc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23NY3Dh29FHA.3340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi Jay,
> >
> > First off let me point out that MVPs do *not* work for Microsoft.
> > We do not make policy for them and we ceratinly do not agree
> > with all of Microsoft's decisions.
> >
> > I personally know nothing about about Hotmail, but perhaps
> > these KB articles may help:
> >
> > Description of how the Attachment Manager works in
> > Windows XP Service Pack 2:
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=883260
> >
> > Cannot open attachments in Microsoft Outlook:
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=829982
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Conrad
> > Access Junkie - MVP
> > http://home.bendbroadband.com/conradsystems/accessjunkie.html
> > http://www.access.qbuilt.com/html/articles.html
> >
>
>
>
.

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