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Topic: Is it safe to allow .doc .pps to be..

Posted By: POSBrad
Subject: Is it safe to allow .doc .pps to be..
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 7:23pm

Is it safe to allow word docs, power point docs, excel docs to be uploaded?

Thanks

Brad

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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 8:25pm

Only if you don't mind downloading viruses.

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Posted By: kbannon
Date Posted: 26 October 2005 at 6:01am

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 By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 26 October 2005 at 8:32am

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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Posted By: POSBrad
Date 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.

How did you do that? Can i make it so only admins/mods can upload?

Posted By: dpyers
Date 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 forum.

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