270934 - Ability to forbid to open attachments

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, enhancement)

Description

[Manfred Lebek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b

I need an option to forbid the opening (execution) of attachments. The option to
save them to harddisk should remain to enable the possibility to scan the file
for viruses. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. right mouse klick on attachment
2 [review]. choose open
3. open the attachment

Actual Results:  
the attachment is executed

Expected Results:  
disable this possibility

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Execution of programs is disabled by default; I suspect you have inadvertantly 
done something to enable this.

Take a look in  Tools|Options|Attachments -- is there a listing for the EXE COM  
SCR or other executable file extensions?  If so, try removing those entries.  
(You could also edit them so that the default action is "save" rather than 
"open"; but in this case, the menu will still show "save" and "open" entries, 
even tho selecting "open" still actually saves.)

Also take a look in your profile directory at mimeTypes.rdf -- open it in a text 
editor and see if there are any entries related to "application/x-msdownload".

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter; =>WFM