>>>Would anyone know why these filters would catch attachments with a url
>>>extention?
>>
>>My guess would be that the filename with the URL extension has ".com" in
>>it, too.
>
>Nope. Just plain-jane url's. No virus, no sircam, no secondary extentions.
>In fact, I've looked at the source code for these pages, and there's no
>character string which would trigger the filters.
A .url link named "www.yahoo.com.url" has ".com" in it. Computers can't
distinguish between ".com" as in "Commercial top-level Internet domain" and
".com" as in "COM file".
-Scott
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