email attack

I understand that folks may have need of sending executable files, but I
can't think of a good reason to send them without zipping or renaming them
so that they can't be executed just by clicking on the attachments. I know
that many corporations are protecting their smtp servers by not passing
executables, they are either compressed or at least have the extentions
renamed. Sure, now you could unzip the file, or rename the extention back
to the original executable extention and still run it, but if someone does
all that to run a file that they received in email that they were not
expecting.....well I am not sure you can really help that person, and they
should be keep away from pointy objects too.


"CW9371" wrote in message
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But I run my own mail server
at home with pretty agreesive SPAM filtering and anti-virus protection
scanning all incoming and out going SMTP traffic, and any attachment that
can be executed it stripped.

That wouldnt work for me that any attachment ths is executable is
stripped.
Wont work for a lot of people.