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by demesio

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in my ms outlook at my desktop i can not receive email that have attachments with the extension of .exe. how can i remove this blockade?
i am in a network using nt4 with SBS and MS Oulook 2K.

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by leon_guerrero

You probably have the Outlook 2000 security patch installed on your PC.

For more information, check out:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/
articles/Q262/6/31.ASP

How I get around this security patch is to have the person sending me the .exe file to rename it as .txt file. Then I download it and then change the extention back to .exe

Hope this helps some?

by william j sosville

Have you contacted your Infrastructure folks? I'm sure you will find the firewall has restricted the passing of executables. Renaming is teh most effective way of circumventing the security however only accept and rename from known and reliable sources.

by william j sosville

Have you contacted your Infrastructure folks? I'm sure you will find the firewall has restricted the passing of executables. Renaming is the most effective way of circumventing the security however only accept and rename from known and reliable sources.

by cdeclercq

2 things - The outlook security patch is most likely.
Otherwise it can be in the anti-virus software. There is a registry key that blocks specific attachments, if using Norton for exchange it exists at:
HKLM\Software\NAVMSE\\BlockingPolicy
and below.
Search for Blocking or ATTACHMENTNAMES in the registry.

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