RE: Outlook 2007: one step forward, two steps back?

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

> How does Pegasus Mail for Windows handle attached executable 
> files?  Does it probably block them so they can't be run?  
> I'm asking because attached executable files have been 
> historically the number one method for transmitting email 
> worms from one user to the next.

Haven't upgraded Pegasus for a year or two, but the last version I installed
was more DIY than that. The option was basically to select file-types on
which you could choose to be warned if the attachment was of that type. I've
always liked Pegasus for its DIY capabilities, but I'm not sure I see the
point of that except to roll out to corporate users, which I never saw as
its market. But it may have changed a lot.

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