Tony:
There are options in simcontrol to disallow certain extensions in
attachments (by default, they're .mp3, .src, .bat, and .pif) and by
adding more (say, .exe?) you can block those attachments completely...
however there is nothing you can do in the /server /(or in the message)
that will tell (or force) the email client NOT to run an attachment.
That is totally the purview of the client software. (THIS IS WHY I tell
my users to NEVER use the preview pane!)
In the words of Comedian Ron White: *You've all kinds of plastic
surgery options that can fix all kinds of ugly... but you can't fix
stupid.*
By which I mean that you cannot possibly engineer enough safeguards to
prevent users from doing stupid things.
Afraid that's the best advise I've got on this one :)
Dan McAllister
IT4SOHO
On 1/26/2015 10:46 PM, Tony White wrote:
Hi folks,
Has anyone any idea how to safely change links in emails to force
them to not autorun?
A client recently had an email that had a link to ransomware which
encrypted not only
the users local drive but the mapped drives as well.
Luckily we had a backup from the prior night so not too big a loss.
It would have been
better to not have the link autorun in the first place.
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