Attachments.

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We are trying to send a .bat file attachment to everyone on our staff. When
the file is received, it cannot be opened. We are getting an error message
which says that the attachment could be dangerous, so it cannot be open.
Please let us know why this problem is happening, and how we can fix it.

Thank You!!
 
This a security feature built into the newer versions of Outlook. The only
two ways I know around it are a registery edit that allows you to build a
list of attachments that access should be allowed (this has to be done on
each machine), or giving the file a different extension name like ".bak"
then have everyone save the attachment and rename it back to ".bat".

I wouldn't recommend the registery edit since this would then make all of
your staff vulnerable to any viruses that may use this type of attachment.

If this is a script you wish for each user to process; consider placing a
link to the files location in the body of the email then have them run it
from there.

Group policy is also and option if you are on Windows 2000 or higher.
 
Just rename the bat file to not say .bat at the end.
Ask users to rename it back.
for example change test.bat to test._bat


Norman
 
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