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Computers and Software => Computers and Software - General => Topic started by: Chadwick on July 13, 2012, 08:42:04 PM
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Many email clients block .exe files.
There's a good reason for this, viruses and all.
Auto executing files are bad news, a program executing file sent with full user permission to engage it, is not.
Thing is, if the .exe is compressed into a folder within a compressed format, like ZIP, for instance,
it really shouldn't be considered a threat, I would assume....... mistakingly, obviously.
Any of you have a hard time sending code through email?
I think I need some web storage.
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Depending on who the email host is you can have problems with all sorts of file types. Extremely frustrating.
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Maybe change the file extension to something innocent like .jpeg then instruct the recipient to rename to .exe?
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Problem with that is some people don't have file extensions turned on.... bad practice, but default on most systems.
They won't have a clue of what you are talking about and won't even know how to change the extension as the "rename" function only changes the name.
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Maybe change the file extension to something innocent like .jpeg then instruct the recipient to rename to .exe?
It will not do it. I think that was mandatory to prevent piracy (to reject .exe files)
Even if the file does not have the .exe extension, the software that looks for it can distinguish if that is a executable file.
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Sometimes that is true... other times it isn't.