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Category Archives: Internetworking/Windows

Cannot open a winmail.dat attachment?

18-Jul-09

If you use non-Microsoft software to read your email, chances are you eventually will receive a message that appears to include an attached file named winmail.dat. This occurs when the sender uses a Microsoft® email client with settings that are incompatible with those of the recipient’s client software.

“Autorun” on Windows® may be active even if disabled

21-Jan-09

US-CERT has issued an alert about a flaw in Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) guidelines on disabling the auto-run functionality, the feature from hell that causes certain optional code on removable media — or on network drives — to be automatically executed as soon as that drive is mounted as well as under certain other circumstances.