From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I fiddled with it a year ago or so, and also found no other way than to
edit the registry. I think that's not very good - I like that as a default
setting (to block executables), but I think it should be a bit easier for
users to switch it off. Messing with the registry can cause other problems
as well, and also once it's turned off it's a big step to go back in to the
registry and set the blocking back on, which would probably be much easier
if it was a setting somewhere in the UI.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
news:42026613$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> So far the only alternative I've found is to edit the registry. That was
> on the MSKB.
>
> Bob Lewis
>
> "Ellen K."  wrote in message
> news:a8n4015isr1b71cf9vemdkp9t6eh5pbtd2{at}4ax.com...
>> Which brings us back to the nasty question of, to what extent should
>> users be protected against their own stupidity?  If Microsoft let these
>> through, people would say they are impairing security.   In fact users
>> clicking on attachments has been one of the biggest ways viruses spread.
>>
>> I'm wondering whether the Help File posted below has an alternative,
>> since the behavior described is labelled the
"default"... i.e. this name
>> implies that some other possibility also exists.  Rich?

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