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• mike - Jul 23 2007 | microsoft, zip, windows, xp, google, documents, security

  Another case of Microsoft's "cure" being worse than the disease. I can't extract a ZIP'ed files download from Google Documents, and it tells me that the file is potentially dangerous, so it won't let me open it.

  Here's the rub, unlike the dialog shown here, I don't have an "Unblock" option in my file properties - so I'm just flat locked out of a file I want to open.

  ... I think I traced my particular problem to an invalid ZIP file. The file names include a ":" character, which, I guess, is not allowed. Even WinZip was refusing to open these files (though it told me correctly that it was a file name problem, and not a security problem - MS gave me the WRONG ERROR MESSAGE).