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To: Swordmaker
...It also recommends blocking such files when they arrive as e-mail attachments or changing PC settings so spreadsheets can't be opened from the Outlook e-mail client or the Web.

Is anyone else as peeved by this kind of stuff as I am? I've had serious issues trying to get data to people because of this idea of just blanket blocking of file types. It really pisses me off sometimes. A couple of times,  the only way I could get data to a vendor that I needed to have them look at was to ftp it to them.  

Microsoft malware is a plague. 

7 posted on 06/20/2006 8:27:27 PM PDT by zeugma (I reject your reality and substitute my own in its place.)
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To: zeugma

If Bill Gates devotes all his money to a cure for HIV, it would be the first virus that Microsoft ever stopped.


8 posted on 06/20/2006 8:53:04 PM PDT by donmeaker (Burn the UN flag publicly.)
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