why doc type change with name "St. Onge"?

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TomDorn

Sending a word document with a name including a period or
a period and some combination of "St. Onge"
will have the file type changed to some odd format when sent as an eMail
attachement
This new format can not be opened by my wife's computer.
All works fine when I delete the peiod [.] from the file name.
However, I note that a period is an allowable character for document names.

What is going on here?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Do you have file extensions displayed? If not, you may be replacing the .doc
extension with . onge as the file extension.
 
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TF

Because double file extensions is a classic way of attaching a virus to an
email message. Some users choose not to display their file extensions for
registered file type (as VERY dangerous choice to be discouraged!). So if
someone sends an attachment:

mydocument.doc.vbs

because they have chosen not to display extension, the recipient only sees
mydocument.doc. They then open the document and execute a vbs script. To
arrest this, anti virus software blocks all attachments with double file
extensions. Many also replace the attachment with a plain text message that
may have a strange file extension of its own.

Although using the stop as part of the filename is quite legal in Windows,
it is obviously no longer a good practise.




: Sending a word document with a name including a period or
: a period and some combination of "St. Onge"
: will have the file type changed to some odd format when sent as an eMail
: attachement
: This new format can not be opened by my wife's computer.
: All works fine when I delete the peiod [.] from the file name.
: However, I note that a period is an allowable character for document
names.
:
: What is going on here?
 
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