Re: Outlook 2003 - Attachment Blocking
From: Diane Poremsky [MVP] (dianenws_at_poremsky.com)
Date: 12/06/04
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 14:15:50 -0500
See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm for ways to get the
attachments off.
For more information on the security features, see
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm
If you use OE, hit forward on a message or disable it in tools | options |
security.
-- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide) Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/ "Martin Ibbotson" <mhibbotson.x@xalt.co.uk> wrote in message news:wx0td.191$dE4.62@newsfe2-win.ntli.net... > This is not a problem more of an observation and a hope of a change... > > I had purchased a price of software from a well-known company which was > sent to me by e-mail. The software was sent as an ".exe" file and was > wholly valid and virus-free. As you have probably guessed, Outlook blocked > the attachment. > > Now, I have been able to get the software by other means so I don't have a > problem in this instance, but I was concerned at the unilateral way that > Microsoft handles decisions on behalf of the users of their software > ("nothing new", I hear some of you cry). I would have expected Outlook to > have stored the blocked attachments in a quarantine folder (or the like) > and allow the user to take the final decision as to whether to delete it > or open it at their own risk. However, as far as I can see, this doesn't > happen. > > The only other option would be for me to prevent Outlook from blocking > ".exe" files, which would lead to my PC being opened to potential attack - > the very act that they are trying to avoid. > > I don't think that MS should take decisions on behalf of users in this way > and I would hope that they would review this blocking policy to one of > placing attachments into a secure (password protected, if necessary) > folder for the user to choose to delete on mass, delete files individually > or to save to another location (with all the risks that suggests). > > I think we've grown up with MS taking inappropriate decisions on our > behalf.... > > Martin > > >
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