True Story
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Yesterday one of our Help Desk personel sent zipped up data files to a client. The client didn't have a utility to easily unzip the files, so the Help Desk guy zipped up the WinZip install, and sent that to the client. :laugh: ---------- Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
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Yesterday one of our Help Desk personel sent zipped up data files to a client. The client didn't have a utility to easily unzip the files, so the Help Desk guy zipped up the WinZip install, and sent that to the client. :laugh: ---------- Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
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...Remember how useful self-extracting zip files used to be, before email systems started stripping .exe attachments...
Now taking suggestions for the next release of CPhog...
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
But you can simply rename the .exe to an acceptable attachment type, right?
Yes but Joe Luser has extentions hidden so he won't be able to rename it successfully.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Ah. I forgot about the common folk.
Some of the newer mail servers have filters that scan the file directly to detect executable content. One of our clients had such a server. I sent him a zipped exe, and his mail server stripped the exe out of the zip. So I sent him an encrypted zip with the exe, the mail server rejected the zip because it was encrypted. So I zipped the exe, renamed it, then zipped the renamed file. The mail server detected that the renamed file was an exe and blocked it. By this time I was mad pissed. I zipped the exe with encryption, renamed it, zipped this encrypted and renamed exe, and sent that - that fooled the mail server! Man, that was a pretty annoying experience! Regards, Nish
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Ah. I forgot about the common folk.
Some of the newer mail servers have filters that scan the file directly to detect executable content. One of our clients had such a server. I sent him a zipped exe, and his mail server stripped the exe out of the zip. So I sent him an encrypted zip with the exe, the mail server rejected the zip because it was encrypted. So I zipped the exe, renamed it, then zipped the renamed file. The mail server detected that the renamed file was an exe and blocked it. By this time I was mad pissed. I zipped the exe with encryption, renamed it, zipped this encrypted and renamed exe, and sent that - that fooled the mail server! Man, that was a pretty annoying experience! Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there!Ugh. Faster to just upload the
.zipto a site that's accessible to the client. Also puts less load on mailservers and lets you easily distro files to >1 person. But I'm stating the obvious here. :) OT: Any new excitement in your lives? Health ins OK now? /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com -
Ugh. Faster to just upload the
.zipto a site that's accessible to the client. Also puts less load on mailservers and lets you easily distro files to >1 person. But I'm stating the obvious here. :) OT: Any new excitement in your lives? Health ins OK now? /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)comRavi Bhavnani wrote:
Faster to just upload the .zip to a site that's accessible to the client. Also puts less load on mailservers and lets you easily distro files to >1 person. But I'm stating the obvious here.
Guy didn't have web access - only email access - company email. :|
Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
OT: Any new excitement in your lives? Health ins OK now?
Yeah, now that we have separate containers for sugar and salt, I don't have to drink coffee with salt or boiled eggs with sugar. :-D Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there! -
Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Faster to just upload the .zip to a site that's accessible to the client. Also puts less load on mailservers and lets you easily distro files to >1 person. But I'm stating the obvious here.
Guy didn't have web access - only email access - company email. :|
Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
OT: Any new excitement in your lives? Health ins OK now?
Yeah, now that we have separate containers for sugar and salt, I don't have to drink coffee with salt or boiled eggs with sugar. :-D Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there! -
Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Ah. I forgot about the common folk.
Some of the newer mail servers have filters that scan the file directly to detect executable content. One of our clients had such a server. I sent him a zipped exe, and his mail server stripped the exe out of the zip. So I sent him an encrypted zip with the exe, the mail server rejected the zip because it was encrypted. So I zipped the exe, renamed it, then zipped the renamed file. The mail server detected that the renamed file was an exe and blocked it. By this time I was mad pissed. I zipped the exe with encryption, renamed it, zipped this encrypted and renamed exe, and sent that - that fooled the mail server! Man, that was a pretty annoying experience! Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there!We're having to revert to delivering updates on CD. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder