On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Does anyone send legitimately .exe's through email anymore?  It seems to
> have become an unwritten law that executables are more likely than not to be
> stripped.  Most recent versions of Outlook won't let you open .exe/.bat/.scr
> attachments.
>

We have vendors who will send us updates (software, license keys, etc)
as self-extracting archives. In general these are ".exe" files.

We used to tell our users to send executables in ".zip" files,
but MyDoom fixed that. ;(


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