Mitch D
12-05-2004, 06:41 AM
:soapbox:
Just a warning to all as I am about to get up on my soap box and rant!
Who the H... E... Double hockey sticks does Microsoft think they are? I had a friend send me an email tonight with a small .exe file attached to it (a small program he is writing for his first PPC). This is all fine and dandy till I go to open the attachement and I get the following warning:
"Outlook has blocked access to the following potentially unsafe files"
Ok I think, not a bad idea normally but I know what I am doing and I know this is a safe file. I look all around Outlook to find a way to disable this with no luck so I decide to check the help file. Low and behold I come across this little peril of wisdom in the help file called "About unblocking attachments"
To provide enhanced security, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 is designed to prevent you from unblocking attachments.
Because Outlook is so widely used, it has been the target of several virus attacks in the past that have affected millions of people. Microsoft has acted to protect people from files, such as .exe and .bat files, that are often used to run malicious scripts when opened. Unfortunately this makes file sharing less convenient for many people, but security must take precedence.
Now what makes Microsoft think they have the right to decide what mail comes into my mail box intact? I like many others have spent a number of years (15 years) working with computers and the last 10 or so on the net and in that time I have had only one virus and I brought it home on a disk from the computer lab at DeVry.
It's no wonder Microsoft is being sued left, right and centre... They think they know what's best for all of us... Well Mr. Gates and Company I have news for you... you know S**T! (edited by me not the moderators) Try designing a good program for once and leave those of us that understand something (even at a moderate level) about computer, internet and email security to monitor and run our own damn systems.
Each day that goes by brings my computers closer and closer to becoming Linux boxes!
:twak:
Just a warning to all as I am about to get up on my soap box and rant!
Who the H... E... Double hockey sticks does Microsoft think they are? I had a friend send me an email tonight with a small .exe file attached to it (a small program he is writing for his first PPC). This is all fine and dandy till I go to open the attachement and I get the following warning:
"Outlook has blocked access to the following potentially unsafe files"
Ok I think, not a bad idea normally but I know what I am doing and I know this is a safe file. I look all around Outlook to find a way to disable this with no luck so I decide to check the help file. Low and behold I come across this little peril of wisdom in the help file called "About unblocking attachments"
To provide enhanced security, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 is designed to prevent you from unblocking attachments.
Because Outlook is so widely used, it has been the target of several virus attacks in the past that have affected millions of people. Microsoft has acted to protect people from files, such as .exe and .bat files, that are often used to run malicious scripts when opened. Unfortunately this makes file sharing less convenient for many people, but security must take precedence.
Now what makes Microsoft think they have the right to decide what mail comes into my mail box intact? I like many others have spent a number of years (15 years) working with computers and the last 10 or so on the net and in that time I have had only one virus and I brought it home on a disk from the computer lab at DeVry.
It's no wonder Microsoft is being sued left, right and centre... They think they know what's best for all of us... Well Mr. Gates and Company I have news for you... you know S**T! (edited by me not the moderators) Try designing a good program for once and leave those of us that understand something (even at a moderate level) about computer, internet and email security to monitor and run our own damn systems.
Each day that goes by brings my computers closer and closer to becoming Linux boxes!
:twak: