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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 19:06
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I sent myself a JS file over email today, when i came to unzip it, XP informed me that it had blocked the file for my own protection....


I DON'T WANT WINDOWS THINKING IT SODDING KNOWS BETTER THAN ME!!


I've got the file now, using WinRAR instead, but that's not the point.

Does anyone know how I can turn this "feature" off?

I want to do whatever the hell I want with my computer, I'm not a retard.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 19:09
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What email client are you using?

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outlook express, i know its crappy, but i don't really do much emailing... will getting thunderbird solve this?

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Outlook Express is rubbish. It's difficult to use (at least I think so), it fails to stop anything you want it to, it's very, VERY insecure, and it's ugly. Oh, and it often blocks things for no real reason. So, yes, I'd go with Thunderbird.

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just installed Thunderbird, I will never look back.

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Always happens to me at work. So I rename the zip file as a ziz file then send that. Most email scanners (ones used before they get to Outlook etc) will let it through, although I have known one or two to stop it (must scan header of file or something). Then just let client know that they must rename as zip. No worries.

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Ed222
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or you could just use windows live mail program if your client is hot mail

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Quote: "or you could just use windows live mail program if your client is hot mail"


Not when my client is businesses worth millions of pounds They spend stupid money on email scanners and the like to stop the crud and stop the use of things like Hotmail (mainly because of people spending too much time on it when should be working). Can send it from Hotmail, but they won't be able to recieve it in Hotmail. I then always use the ziz method as most scanners are too stupid and it never matters what client they are using.

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tha_rami
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In 9 out of 10 cases, Windows sodding knows better than the person using it.


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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 12:23
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FYI: Windows file protection is not the same thing as Windows blocking files from Email, IM etc.

WFP is the thing that stops you from overwriting windows components, often in dllcache, along the lines of the uxtheme thing. I was about to post about that, and then realized that you didn't mean WFP


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At the end of the day most of the businesses we deal with, the email isn't stopped by Windows, or even by anything MS has made, but by expensive third party email scanners that are seriously anal. Apparently in our company (about 2000 employees) we get about 24 million emails completely stopped every month before it even gets anywhere near our machines (or even our own junk filters). Saying that, I had my first junk email at work the other day in about 5 years. I can let it off though as it was special offers for holidays from a company that we supply systems to (Center Parcs). Considering they were offering 60% off deals to us as friends and family I wasn't exactly gutted...

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