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Security problem when executable is received by e-mail or CD
I had installed agent ransack (installation kit - agentran.exe) on my
husband's XP 2002 SP 3 computer some time ago. I had given him my installation kit- I forget whether by e-mail or CD. He had a problem that required that everything be re-installed. We hired someone to do that. When I tried to give him agentran.exe again, I get the following error, when I double click on it, whether I e-mail the program or give it to him on a CD. When transmitting the file I always renamed it to agentran.exe_file. "Windows cannot access the specified device." I thought I was submitting this post to find out how to run agentran.exe, but when I went to my husband's computer to get the error message correct, it ran ok! What could have changed? He is a very passive user - just WordPerfect and Excel. We don't use a hub - just direct connect to the cable provider. He has only one cd drive. I can't imagine what changed. If it should happen again, what would I do? I looked in properties of the file and didn't see anything helpful. TIA LAS |
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Security problem when executable is received by e-mail or CD
Laurel wrote:
I had installed agent ransack (installation kit - agentran.exe) on my husband's XP 2002 SP 3 computer some time ago. I had given him my installation kit- I forget whether by e-mail or CD. He had a problem that required that everything be re-installed. We hired someone to do that. When I tried to give him agentran.exe again, I get the following error, when I double click on it, whether I e-mail the program or give it to him on a CD. When transmitting the file I always renamed it to agentran.exe_file. "Windows cannot access the specified device." I thought I was submitting this post to find out how to run agentran.exe, but when I went to my husband's computer to get the error message correct, it ran ok! What could have changed? He is a very passive user - just WordPerfect and Excel. We don't use a hub - just direct connect to the cable provider. He has only one cd drive. I can't imagine what changed. If it should happen again, what would I do? I looked in properties of the file and didn't see anything helpful. Did you or your husband rename the file from "agentran.exe_file" to "agentran.exe"? I doubt the extended extension could be run, so if the name was changed, that might explain why it's working now. -- Joe =o) |
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Security problem when executable is received by e-mail or CD
Oh, yes, of course. I use the exe_file trick all the time to send exes.
No, it won't run unless it was renamed. That was not the problem. (But you won't get that error if you try to run it either.) "Elmo" wrote in message ... Laurel wrote: I had installed agent ransack (installation kit - agentran.exe) on my husband's XP 2002 SP 3 computer some time ago. I had given him my installation kit- I forget whether by e-mail or CD. He had a problem that required that everything be re-installed. We hired someone to do that. When I tried to give him agentran.exe again, I get the following error, when I double click on it, whether I e-mail the program or give it to him on a CD. When transmitting the file I always renamed it to agentran.exe_file. "Windows cannot access the specified device." I thought I was submitting this post to find out how to run agentran.exe, but when I went to my husband's computer to get the error message correct, it ran ok! What could have changed? He is a very passive user - just WordPerfect and Excel. We don't use a hub - just direct connect to the cable provider. He has only one cd drive. I can't imagine what changed. If it should happen again, what would I do? I looked in properties of the file and didn't see anything helpful. Did you or your husband rename the file from "agentran.exe_file" to "agentran.exe"? I doubt the extended extension could be run, so if the name was changed, that might explain why it's working now. -- Joe =o) |
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Security problem when executable is received by e-mail or CD
Nope, didn't forget to rename it. This is how I always send *.exe files. I
know they won't run until renamed. But if you try, you don't get that error. "Elmo" wrote in message ... Laurel wrote: I had installed agent ransack (installation kit - agentran.exe) on my husband's XP 2002 SP 3 computer some time ago. I had given him my installation kit- I forget whether by e-mail or CD. He had a problem that required that everything be re-installed. We hired someone to do that. When I tried to give him agentran.exe again, I get the following error, when I double click on it, whether I e-mail the program or give it to him on a CD. When transmitting the file I always renamed it to agentran.exe_file. "Windows cannot access the specified device." I thought I was submitting this post to find out how to run agentran.exe, but when I went to my husband's computer to get the error message correct, it ran ok! What could have changed? He is a very passive user - just WordPerfect and Excel. We don't use a hub - just direct connect to the cable provider. He has only one cd drive. I can't imagine what changed. If it should happen again, what would I do? I looked in properties of the file and didn't see anything helpful. Did you or your husband rename the file from "agentran.exe_file" to "agentran.exe"? I doubt the extended extension could be run, so if the name was changed, that might explain why it's working now. -- Joe =o) |
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Security problem when executable is received by e-mail or CD
Laurel wrote:
Nope, didn't forget to rename it. This is how I always send *.exe files. I know they won't run until renamed. But if you try, you don't get that error. "Elmo" wrote in message ... Laurel wrote: I had installed agent ransack (installation kit - agentran.exe) on my husband's XP 2002 SP 3 computer some time ago. I had given him my installation kit- I forget whether by e-mail or CD. He had a problem that required that everything be re-installed. We hired someone to do that. When I tried to give him agentran.exe again, I get the following error, when I double click on it, whether I e-mail the program or give it to him on a CD. When transmitting the file I always renamed it to agentran.exe_file. "Windows cannot access the specified device." I thought I was submitting this post to find out how to run agentran.exe, but when I went to my husband's computer to get the error message correct, it ran ok! What could have changed? He is a very passive user - just WordPerfect and Excel. We don't use a hub - just direct connect to the cable provider. He has only one cd drive. I can't imagine what changed. If it should happen again, what would I do? I looked in properties of the file and didn't see anything helpful. Did you or your husband rename the file from "agentran.exe_file" to "agentran.exe"? I doubt the extended extension could be run, so if the name was changed, that might explain why it's working now. A few causes/cures I found with a Google Groups search: - Firewall - IE settings that block access to files/folders - Use "Run As" "Administrator" To continue the search: http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...=Search+Groups -- Joe =o) |
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Security problem when executable is received by e-mail or CD
Thanks. As it turned out, when I went to try it again a few days later
(didn't re-send - just used the ransack.exe that I'd already put on his computer) it worked! Go figure! As I said, he's such a simple user he couldn't do anything "interesting" in the meantime to change the environment. Who knows. "Elmo" wrote in message ... Laurel wrote: Nope, didn't forget to rename it. This is how I always send *.exe files. I know they won't run until renamed. But if you try, you don't get that error. "Elmo" wrote in message ... Laurel wrote: I had installed agent ransack (installation kit - agentran.exe) on my husband's XP 2002 SP 3 computer some time ago. I had given him my installation kit- I forget whether by e-mail or CD. He had a problem that required that everything be re-installed. We hired someone to do that. When I tried to give him agentran.exe again, I get the following error, when I double click on it, whether I e-mail the program or give it to him on a CD. When transmitting the file I always renamed it to agentran.exe_file. "Windows cannot access the specified device." I thought I was submitting this post to find out how to run agentran.exe, but when I went to my husband's computer to get the error message correct, it ran ok! What could have changed? He is a very passive user - just WordPerfect and Excel. We don't use a hub - just direct connect to the cable provider. He has only one cd drive. I can't imagine what changed. If it should happen again, what would I do? I looked in properties of the file and didn't see anything helpful. Did you or your husband rename the file from "agentran.exe_file" to "agentran.exe"? I doubt the extended extension could be run, so if the name was changed, that might explain why it's working now. A few causes/cures I found with a Google Groups search: - Firewall - IE settings that block access to files/folders - Use "Run As" "Administrator" To continue the search: http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...=Search+Groups -- Joe =o) |
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