That's by design, and frankly I think it's a good design.

Email is not an acceptable transport medium for software, which seems to be
an argument I have with our customer support and development groups on a
regular basis.

Of course, if you password protect the ZIP, it won't get blocked.

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Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Woods, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:26 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: NAV Blocking ZIP files
> 
> 
> Hello, Exchange 5.5 SP4 on mix of NT 4 and w2k boxes.
> 
> I recently put the reg tweaks in for Martin's List of Danger 
> attachments
> using NAV 2.x for Exchange and have noticed that even though 
> a ZIP file is
> not listed in my list, the .exe's and .bat's...etc inside 
> them are getting
> quarantined. This is really pissing off my software 
> developers. Now I know
> this is because I've got it set to scan within compressed 
> attachments but
> I'm wondering if either I'm missing an extra reg key so that 
> it ignores them
> (if they're not viral) or is there something else I'm not 
> aware of that I
> can do. If it's all I can do, then I don't mind going to 
> battle with them
> for it but I thought I would ask the group first.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tony
> 
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