you can set the behaviour if you want to
personally i like being able to run the odd program from there
however when you click it it pops up asking you what action you wish to take
and warning that files can have viruses etc if you uncheck "ask me every
time" and click save then from then on it will prompt to save whenever you
click on a file of that type. you must disable the "child lock" security
first.
thats what it is really a child lock.


-----Original Message-----
From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Russell McMahon
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 5:02 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT:] Windows/Linux security


> if you can ... save .pif .exe whatever files out of
> the program you have either not patched or have disabled the "security".

That would be the "brain dead security" wouldn't it ? :-)

I think it's fine to be able to disable pif/exe/com/... running AND to be
able to stop them being even saved BUT when you can have only both or
neither it's ludicrous. Of course I don't want to have my email program
running exe files  in the current environment - too much chance for a
mistake.  But I certainly want to be able to save exe files I am sent. I
can't imagine why it HAS to be both or neither. Maybe that's been changed
since I last looked at the options.



        RM

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