Email Attachment Issue

[LCD]

I currently have outlook 2000 installed on my win2k machine, accessing our exchange 5.5 server. When a user sends me a email with a .bas or .exe file attached, the attachment is automaticly removed from the email. For some reason, this seems to be just a win2k thing, since the same version of Outlook is installed on bunch of NT4 box's and they can see the attachments. But my machine and the two other machines on Win2k can't. They can see other attachments though (.txt, .zip...)
If you know how to make it so I CAN read these, please let me know. We are running Computer Associates Anti-Virus with the exchange plugin, but I don't think that has anything to do with this.
I'd also like to know how to remove the ability for some of our users so that can not run .bas and .exe files on the NT4 box's. Thank You

 

[dharty]

I don't know how CA runs but on our Exchange server we use Trend Micro's ScanMail to automatically strip attachments with certain extensions. I don't recall .bas but we do strip .exe and .vbs for example. Maybe CA's plugin has this capability

Just a thought,
dave

 

[LCD]

Thank you Dave, I'll double check CA, but it seems to coincidental that it's a NT4/2k thing.
All I know is it's messed up, the two IT guys CANT recieve these files (the ones who know better not to run strange files) and the rest of the users can open as many as they want. It should be the complete reverse. The only diference I see between these machines are mine and the other IT guy are both on Win2k, and the rest are NT4. And the fact that me and him have some admin rights in our user accounts and they don't... Odd.
Please if anyone knows what to do, maybe a reg hack? I'd appreciate it, thank you.

Andrew (LCD)

 

[dharty]

Hi Andrew,

Hmm. My only other guess might be to poke around the Internet settings in the CP's. Maybe somehow a security item is set incorrectly. I don't see anything that might cause this on mine but it's a shot in the dark.

Good Luck,
dave

 

[ChuckG]

You might check the Office service pack level. MS put out a security patch that if the extension of a attachment is one of their seven "hot" extensions (exe and com are included I know) it will not allow the user to even view the attachment or save it to disk.

We had this problem when we upgraded users from outlook 97 to 2000, and applied the service pack.

Your W2K machines may already have this security update applied which is why it's only affecting them.

Chuck

 

[LCD]

ChuckG, that sounds like a good possiblity as to why this is happening. Do you know of a way to un-idiot-proof this thing? Thanks

-Andrew (LCD)

 

[LCD]

http://support.microsoft.com/suppor...ents&rnk=18&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=OL2002

Here is the Fix for this issue for Office XP. Doesn't look like there is a fix for Office 2000. Maybe someone knows one. This is a result of a Security update from M$. According to M$ these is no way to uninstall the update without completely reinstalling Office, and not installing the service pack or security releases.