in reply to Wanted: POP3 Client in Perl

An unsafe file cannot be read. Period. It's not deleted, but there is no way to access it! That's nuts.

In Outlook, right-click on the file icon and select Save As... from the pop-up. Once the file is on disk, it can be accessed normally.

It's still nuts. Microsoft's implication that .zip files are insecure is flat-out lunacy.

Update: Bah. I'm reacting to an earlier security patch. The one John is referring to is even stupider.

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Re: Re: Wanted: POP3 Client in Perl
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Aug 23, 2001 at 02:26 UTC
    Nope.

    On the File menu, the Save Attachments command and the View Attachments command on the shortcut menu will not be available for this message.
    I said there's no way to access it, not I overlooked a way other than just double-clicking on the icon.

    .zip is not on The List. But why are Photo CD Images? Why would they be more problematic than JPEGs? And MS's own word DOC files are OK, even though they are a rich source of macro viruses.

    —John

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      John,
      This is because the .pcd extension is also used by the MS Visual Test product for the compiled pseudo code (now supported by Rational).

      Graham

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        That makes sense. But their list says "Photo CD", not "Visual Test Pseudocode".
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