Re: netscape 4.61 recognizes file.changed-doc/xls

[gareth () UBERDOG NET (Gareth Jones)]

From: "Chad Thunberg" <chadth () OBFUSTECH COM>
> Upon receiving the email, the attachment's name was
> changed to test.1234DEFACED-DOC and test.1234DEFACED-XLS.  After double
> clicking the attachments, netscape mail gives the user the option of
opening
> the file with winword.exe and excel.exe.  We also tested with .bat and
> various other .ext but only winword and excel associated files were
> recognized.  Can anyone else confirm or deny this?

Are you sure that the problem is in Netscape mail? I ask because if you are
running office on top of NT, word and excel files are correctly recognised
even if they have no extensions.

Gareth