this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If it's an executeable with dependencies in the archive it might not run without being unpacked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The greentext says "he asks for some files", that doesn't sound like an executable, which usually gets blocked by the mail system anyway (even in a zip, if there's no password on it).

But yeah, that is one way to have it broken, besides Windows refusing to run a random .exe

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can't email exes, but once you zip it there is no exe, it's a zip. If outlook automatically unpacks and scans the zip (which i doubt) you can always password lock the archive

Edit: And my email them i mean attach them in outlook

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Outlook blocks it by default so if you allow exe's to be emailed.. you're pretty stupid.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't use software that imposes arbitrary restrictions on me for my "protection" and suggesting that this functionality is baked into email itself is just factually incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

more like uhh... bad for everyone cause you presented false information as fact