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POSBrad 
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Posted: 25 October 2005 at 7:23pm |
Is it safe to allow word docs, power point docs, excel docs to be uploaded?
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Posted: 25 October 2005 at 8:25pm |
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kbannon
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Posted: 26 October 2005 at 6:01am |
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As these can contain macros, then the answer for a public accessible
forum would in theory be no. On an intranet you should be safer.
If you allowed it on a public forum then make sure to inform people
that they must check all downloads for virii, and that its not your
responsibility, etc.
On my forum I have only allowed uploads to members with 500 or more posts.
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Posted: 26 October 2005 at 8:32am |
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To be honest as uploading requires write permissions on a directory
that a hacker can know about, the only safe way it to not allow any
uploading at all.
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POSBrad
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Posted: 26 October 2005 at 3:59pm |
 kbannon wrote:
As these can contain macros, then the answer for a public accessible forum would in theory be no. On an intranet you should be safer.
If you allowed it on a public forum then make sure to inform people that they must check all downloads for virii, and that its not your responsibility, etc.
On my forum I have only allowed uploads to members with 500 or more posts.
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How did you do that? Can i make it so only admins/mods can upload?
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Posted: 26 October 2005 at 7:22pm |
POSBrad wrote:
How did you do that? Can i make it so only admins/mods can upload? |
You can set that up in the forum permissions area of the admin section.
Just pick the groups you want to have uploads available for in a given
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