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I learned something new today. You see my proxy firewall had been blocking many attachement sent by my supplier and some of the rules are plain riduculous and dumb. First they block all "ZIP" files, then "EXE" and after that all "WMA", "WMV" and etc. In my line of work we need to deal with supplier everyday and we have to sent them data and information for them to make their product. It's specification and etc. Many of this data are very large size and contain multiple files. Therefore, if the size are too large then we just "ZIP" it up and sent the file. Some supplier doesn't have "ZIP" program and thus we need to make the "ZIP" data self -extractable. When we do this, the files are usually in "EXE". These are just some of the examples I am giving. Now you know how difficult and dumb our proxy administrator are. 
I mean blocking application files for security reason I understand. But what are the practicalbility ? In IT world, there is nothing finite. No matter what security system that you can come out with, there will always be a backdoor or a hole around it. Of course all this security plicy and implementation are just to fool and prevent dummies from accidentally causing havoc. If you really know a thing or 2 about computers, superhighway www knowledge then its pointless. What is important is education and training. I believe awareness and making people understand the implication and results are much better than treating them as dummies and brainless employee.
Heard later on, the IT fellow then unblock "ZIP" files and remove the stupid policy. Nevertheless, for "EXE" and those video and audio files still stand but was surprised to learn that the IT fellow themself are circumvanting around the policy. One of them told me at a slip of the tongue that they are using office suite to attached the video/audio files as one of the method. This way, the proxy filter will only indentify the office document and not the attachment. Hence , the filtering is done on Level 1 only. Not sure how true is that. Perhaps have to try. He also accidently taught me how to play with the registry editor to remove the "EXE" blocking. The setting I mean......not really playing.
So here's a glimpse on the setting and for my knowledge.
If you observed, you need to go into regedit and then find outlook security setting folder. Then create a totally "new string value" with the name "Level1Remove" and key in the data ".exe". Thus when new email comes in, it will not removed files with attachment ending with ".exe".
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