Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

They won't allow you to send or receive zipped password protected attachments. if they can't see what's in them. they're going in the bin :)


http://www.virginmedia.com/help/virg...ments.php#6584

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

Not unusual.

I wonder if they can detect winrar files.

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

Totally out of order, IMO. What business have VM looking at the content of zipped files?

...and yes, I know MS e-mail clients do similar blocking by default, BUT a) that can be switched off and b) that blocking is done by s/w at the client end - no snooping on the way.

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

Not being allowed to password protect a zip file is usual?
I know Gmail don't allow you to send various extensions, but I don't think they say you can't password protect a zip.

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This is unclear. are they saying if it has no extension it will get blocked? they don't know if it's an executable or a jpg if it doesn't have an extension

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

I just change the file extension and tell the other person to change it back.

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

As Paul says not unusual at all, if their anti-spam/AV can't scan it then they reject it..

It's nothing about cataloging what's in the zip but purely a safety issue for the majority of thier customers..

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

But passwording a zip file can be used as a security measure on the 'customers and recipiants' side. by Virgin doing this they are forcing you to have no security.
there is no option to turn it off, and we don't actually know nothing's not being catalogued. we just think and hope it's not.

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

If you're that worried then you have a simple choice of getting an email system elsewhere, or get your own domain and host your own email addresses..

It's VM's servers and VM's rules that you agreed to when you signed up

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

:rolleyes:

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

Well how can it be a spying/nanny state if you have a choice? It's not as if every ISP has the same rules which is purely to do with malware scans ;)

Time for the usual link I think!!!

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

Just because you have a choice to use another email sevice, it doesn't mean that the one you moved from wasn't spying or them playing nanny.

they even block a zip within a zip. and applies to SMTP mail too.

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

Is this not the google hosted email via VM and so google's policy really?

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

No it's VM's policy. VM has added more extensions to block than what Google does.

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

Considering the blocked extension list is a copy/paste of the google help page (with a VM added verbose list) I'd say it's likely it is google's policy. Just because google don't explicitly list the extensions doesn't mean they don't block them.

Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
 

VM have compared their policy to googles as a seperate thing.
the same VM policy applies to SMTP too.
Googles policy on passworded zips is If the attachment is encrypted and does not contain another zipped attachment, then it can be sent and received.

VM are saying that they can't be passworded at all.