Opening attachments that have .exe, .com or any other executable f

L

Luis

I recently have encountered an issue with outlook messages containing
attached files. I am unable to open any attached file that has an executable
file extension. I believe that this was caused by asecurity update I accepted
from auto update. Has anyone seen this issue and how do I get a workaround?
 
J

Joe M

A way, in the past, to "cheat the system" was to have the originator of the
msg to change the file extension from the prohibited ones to acceptable ones
when sending, and include in the message, or by other communication means,
for you to change name when saving to correct original .exe or other
extension.
 
P

Pat Willener

Many mail servers would also strip executables from outgoing and/or
incoming messages. Executables are best sent in a ZIP or other
compressed file format.
 
R

Roady [MVP]

***side stepping from Outlook blocking mechanism***

True, but these can be caught as well when corporate scans the file
structure; it would still be obvious an exe-file. The same is true for when
they scan in zip-files. Password protecting a zip-file could result in a
drop of the attachment when they have the option set drop attachments that
cannot be scanned. So many ways to cheat the system; so many other ways to
counteract it ;-)

If corporate really don't want these types of attachments in via email; it's
certainly possible.
 
B

Beevo-AZ

Heck, all I want to do is save them so I can look at them somewhere else!

I just upgraded(?) to Office 2007 and find that I can no longer do my daily
emails that come to me with attachments, something I need to be able to
receive.

It is getting removed and returned to the store tomorrow.

Good Grief!!

Bill
 
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