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- chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2NO, it does NOT let you send EXEs.
I wrote them shortly after I got Gmail (not too long after it came out) explaining a half-dozen reasons for legitimately sending EXEs, along with the fact that preventing them from being sent is not much in the way of security - as there are many workarounds, many of which a novice could follow by simple instructions. - nano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hotmail had this for, like, five years now.
- sh0gun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Zip, rar, tar, bzip....whatever, (drop .exe), compress and send. Having to drop the .exe is kinda annoying, though.
- dolby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Will they let you send .exe files now?
- Hoohoonick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For any attachment that does not work, i use yousendit.com to attach the file. yousendit rocks!
- hanshasuro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, Gmail will look inside the zip and find the .exe in there. You can, however, rename the .exe file to whatever you want and then just rename it back on the other side.
- ejeckert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OK, yahoo has been doing this for years now, don't get too wrapped up on gmail , the interface is terrible, it isn't very friendly, no calendar, contact interface isn't so great, they have the right to read your emails to put ads to the left of your preview pane based on your email content, and I don't know about you but I don't need 2.6 GB of storage space...but it is nice. I wish I could sync with my outlook contacts via intellisync like I can with Yahoo. And soon Yahoo Mail Beta will go live and Google will have an up hill battle competing with Yahoo's new interface which is incredibly easy, friendly, and way more powerful then any other webmail out...PERIOD. Don't get me wrong I like gmail, and use it everyday, but feel it looks a little fisher price compared to yahoo and the new yahoo beta...which has spoiled me. But google does do some awesome stuff. I love the fact that googles presents in the free email community, has forced everyone to increase their capacity and gmail has the best spam filtering I have use yet!! It is flawless. Now if they can work on their interface. Oh and they do let you pull your email from their server (with full encrypted support between your email client and their server...encrypted Mail!! YEAH) via Outlook or Thunderbird...that is awesome and something yahoo is yet to do!!! But the day and age of Outlook even thunderbird are number...in my opinion. I stopped using them because I use so many different computers thru the day its nutz. Webmail works on a Mac or a PC just the same...no foolin around with setting up email clients and so on. But this is just my opinion...so no one has to agree with me. Yahoo and Google are both the thorn in Microsoft's side...that I love and I hope MS Exchanges goes Bye Bye because of improvements in Webmail!! Hard to believe but it will happen.
- trackzilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Can't you just zip up a .exe file and send it?"
No, Gmail scans the contents of all compressed files and if it contains an exe, Gmail will notify you said extension is not permitted as an attachment. - jdong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, soon though GMail might use MIME headers / the Unix "file" command to check exactly what it is, and file rarely lies... Nothing short of adding a couple extra spaces in an EXE header would fix that!
P.S. anyone know what AV engine is used by GMail? - Wogna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, am I the only one who sees this tying into a Google OS?
- boscorelle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gmail just keeps gettin better :)
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pass Protected Zips won't help you. The password protection on a ZIP file doesn't stop gmail from looking at the filenames inside the zip file (since those are not encrypted) and if it sees an EXE, it'll reject it.
It goes further too, a ZIP file inside a password protected ZIP file also gets rejected, since it can't decompress the ZIP to examine the enclosed ZIP. - billygreen23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1now we just need a bloody calendar.
- revoked, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I found the best way to send disallowed file types (last time I checked gmail didn't let me send .zip files with a c# project in it) is just rename it like:
someFile.imAnExe
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someFile.imAZip - terminalfreeze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I also want a Google channel.
- sh0gun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can't you just zip up a .exe file and send it?
- wired4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What if I want to send a virus? BTW gmails spam filter is the best I have seen todate. Why cant my isp have a spam and virus filter like they do?
- a1programmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have found that embedding an exe in an rtf document (using wordpad) , then zipping it up works pretty well. ;)
- slhilbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can I send a file bigger than 10 megs now?
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http://www.getyourowntots.com - terminalfreeze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm gonna name my first born Google.
- abbtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Unless this is something more, they were doing this in September. I was not able to send out archives that had .bin files in them...
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http://www.alan-parekh.com - terminalfreeze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Stoogle is good, how about Googlebucks?
- WizKid8586, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Scratch that; it works now.
- linuxmatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Zip? Rar is better."
Rar? tar.gz is better. - CPedison, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now all they have to do is allow the option for .exe files to sent or received and Gmail will be perfect.
- wired4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0whats a google? :}
- celeb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0think it was put in lastnight, there was downtime between 2 and 3am est. where the service was unavailable to all users
- slhilbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google OS.... nahhh... Antivirus is a must with e-mail providers.
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http://www.getyourowntots.com - buss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dolby: I'm pretty sure they will let you send an exe now. They didn't let you before because of the possibility of viruses.
- wilsonics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Zip? Rar is better.
- ejeckert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Fanboy...FLAME! I still dont get the cult following with Gmail. Don't get lost in the capacity...98% of us dont need that much space!!! I use it, it's ok but like I said needs loads of interface work and some additional features...but it will get there! But as they improve theirs so is everyone else. As much as I hate Hotmail...not just because it lets every piece of spam thru know to man kind, it was the First Free webmail account you could get...they were the Pioneer...but back then they weren't owned by Microsoft. And now hotmail is getting a big face lift, very user-friendly intuitive, powerful, and so on...just like Yahoo! Mail beta...google needs to get moving on the interface or no one will care about 2.6 GB of space!!! After using the Yahoo! Mail beta I am completely hooked...IT ROCKS!!! Once it goes public you will see...I just hope this will fire up google to get going on the gmail interface and a few features...then it will be the ultimate...til then I'm sticking with Yahoo! Mail Beta Tab based webmail...AWESOMEEEEE!!
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Try this in GMAIL!! Not there! - CaptSnuffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0just rename the exe
- Hieros, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sweet, I'm going to go check it now.
- outz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Rar? tar.gz is better."
"tar.gz? bz2 is better."
bz2? 7z is better. - jdong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I guess you could also use pass-protected zips and other methods... The whole idea of checking inside archives for infected files have been used by e-mail AV scanners for quite some time...
At a security nerd summit I've hacked together a working demo of a clamav scanner script able to pick out user-specified passwords in English e-mails (by intelligently looking for 'The password is' constructs and variants), and a really cheap try-every-word-on-the-page method for non parsable e-mails.
According to gmail, they look inside most archive types:http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8493&topic=1547
"Gmail doesn't accept these types of files even if they are sent in a zipped (.zip, .tar, .tgz, .taz, .z, .gz) format" - fillup07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cant you drop the extension of the .exe (or rename it to .jpg) and zip/compress it? Then if all it can see is the file name then how could it stop that?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Rar? tar.gz is better."
tar.gz? bz2 is better.
But this time, officially, it is. - allarise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0now a calendar please.
- goldthroat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have mail from my Fastmail account forwarded to Gmail. Does that mean those emails are also checked for virus'?
- BradMurray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wired4u - Google's spam filter is the best? I get all of my mail through POP access and Outlook still has to junk about 50 msgs/day that Google didn't catch. Before gmail I used to get about 700 spams/day of which Outlook caught about 98%.
- torindkflt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember reading somewhere that Gmail is using a version of Sophos for the virus scanning. No idea how well Sophos works, because I've never used it.
This is indeed good news. Now ALL of my email will be passing through two layers of virus scanning (Server-side and locally on my computer) before getting to my inbox, not just my Yahoo mail. - ting, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not a big deal. Mail.ru use Kaspersky for years.
BTW I'm curious - which exactly antivirus they use? - matx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If anyone wants to send me exe and viruses I just give them my FTP address ;)
works everytime - jdong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As far as lzo vs gz vs bz2 vs 7z, I'll comment on that a bit... They are indisputedly ranked here by order of increasing compression ratio. However, they are also ranked by increasing amount of time necessary for compression. lzo compresses virtually in real time, doing most 30MB archives in less than a second, while 7z can easily take 10-20 minutes on the exact set of data...
It depends on what you're doing what is the best format... - jdong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sophos, not a bad choice... I've used it slightly, and walked away thinking it was a competent product. Sure it's no F-Secure/KAV at detecting everything except the kitchen sink, but it gets the job done...
If you really think about it, any AV is better than no AV. At any given time, there's only so many e-mail worms spreading actively, and ANY time they put a plug on it is better than never :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What i can get the Yahoo! Mail Beta???
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http://3couleurs.blogspot.com - Yodacola, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It has been here for a while now... I suppose google hasn't called it a feature until now.
- terminalfreeze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I want Google to merge with Starbucks.
- capajc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Who cares? Anyone running their own A/V software doesn't need this, and anyone not running A/V software deserves every virus they get.
This isn't news, it's a status report on a beta app. - Laughingman234, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Schweeeet. Gmail is the shizit.
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