Re: suggestions for blocking dangerous mail attachments?

["Meritt James" <meritt_james () bah com>]

I would be interested if you manage to solve a social problem through
technological means.

"It is hard to make something foolproof because fools are so ingenious."

Jim

Juan Mejia wrote:
> Hello guys,
>     Tired   of   users  who  refuse  to  think twice before running an
>     attachment,  I  thought  that  it  would  help  if  the  mail  was
>     downloaded  from  the  institutional  server  to  a box that would
>     process    it   and  change  dangerous  file  extensions  in  the
>     attachments  to  something  like  "Don't  run/rename  if not sure"
>     (maybe  "format.com.DRIS").  Yes,  people still can run the files,
>     but  first  they would have to save and rename them. This makes it
>     harder   to   execute   a  file,  avoiding  the  fast,  thoughtless
>     reaction of double clicking anything they see on the screen.

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