Attachments

Some attachments contain potentially harmful programs, such as viruses, spyware, and keyboard capture, that can cause loss of data and/or personal information. GoSecure recommends that you never open an attachment from a sender you do not know, or from whom you were not expecting a file.

You can filter messages with attachments, by attachment type. Additionally, you can add a new attachment type to filter.

Note: Zipped attachments (zip and rar format) are also screened. If an attached zip/rar file contains a file type listed here, the specified action is applied to the entire zip/rar automatically. If there are multiple types of files in the zip/rar, the most aggressive filtering is applied to the zip/rar.

Individual users can configure their attachment settings on the Policies page of the High Bandwidth Personal Dashboard, and the Attachments page of the Low Bandwidth Personal Dashboard.

To add an attachment type:

Enter the attachment extension in the text entry box.

Note: The action applied is based on the detected file type, independent of the file name. For example, if an .exe file is named file.txt, the action you choose for an .exe file will still be applied.

Note: Any file with the .exe file extension has the action for an .exe file applied, independent of the file type. For example, if a text file is named file.exe, the action you choose for an .exe file will still be applied.

Click the Add icon

Select the action to apply.

Note: If you choose Strip, the attachment will be permanently deleted and the message will be delivered with an annotation specifying how many attachments were stripped. Stripped attachments cannot be recovered.

Optional: Delete or change the prepended subject line of marked up attachments.

Click Update Section.