>Blocking all exes is not a good idea IMHO. I can send you a virus in a zip
>file anyway. All blocking all exe's does is make life harder for end users.
malicious .exe�s make life easier for them?
> And if you block exe's are you going to also block pif's and com's and
> bat's as well?
yup, whammo, splat, gurgle, pop, dem�s all daid.
>It's a road that shouldn't be gone down.
I think I remember that song, hum us a few bars...
> Instead spend the money on Declude's
> (<http://www.declude.com>www.declude.com) antivirus solution and get
> F-Prot or Mcafee and you'll be doing your users a world of good.
We block 'em for free and globally for all domains with IMGate, but we only
deal with business users, not general public. On the road you go down, YMMV.
Len
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