Tim: >> Personally, I'd rather take the approach of instead of trying to >> determine whether something going through the mail server is bad or >> good code, that just anything that's executable gets destroyed on the >> way through. That'd save a lot of clueless Windows users quite >> easily. Sebastian Gurovich: > It can be a nuisance Tim that one can´t send bin file attachments > through gmail. AFAIK hotmail still allows it, if you re-name the file > extension, first. Bah! They still play the file naming game... Off all the dumb ways to do it... E-mail really isn't a file transfer mechanism, but for those with their heart set on it, despite all the pitfalls, there's ways and means of doing it. What I proposed is a simple way of protecting most people, without them having to constantly update recognition software. Can it run, or not? A simple determination. Not trying to figure out, "Is it safe to run or not?" Something that's next to impossible to get right. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
