clamity opening xls file

[chong]

calamity opening xls file

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Technology used:
Windows XP SP2
Internet Explorer 6 SP2
Microsoft Outlook 2003
Microsoft Excel 2003
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Users receive an email, on a weekly basis, the email is in HTML format and contains links to download equity information from our website(sorry for the jargon)…all of the links work, except one…

All point to the same path
www.website.com/pathtofiles/file.xls

However, when I click on this particular .xls link, Internet Explorer 6(sp2) notifies me of a security issue. (File Download - Security Warning)

https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2784&stc=1

I understand the reason for the security warning, but, not for a XLS file, and the others didn’t do this…Internet Explorer asked me to either [open][save][cancel] the download.

Thing that’s caught my attention is on the “File Download – Security Warning” Notification window is the name of the file:

Name: forecast_equities_xls

Does this usually happen with this Security Warning (changing the .ext to _ext?)

But, whats even more annoying is that when IE opens, the status bar reads

“Start downloading from site: [url="http://www.website.com/pathtofiles/file.xls”"]http://www.website.com/pathtofiles/file.xlshttp://www.website.com/pathtofiles/file.xls”http://www.website.com/pathtofiles/file.xls””[/url]

Where’s the Security Warning getting _xls from?
If I click save, the files saves, no problem…however, if I select open – all hell breaks loose and IE complains it cannot find the file…see link for screenie.

https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2786

Then click ok on this window, and the following message appears

https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2785&stc=1

Once this is ok’d…a File Download message then appears asking me to open or save…both work fine.

WTF is going on 8(

Please take a look at the attachments for example of the notification windows...

Thanking you 8)

 

[chong]

update:

managed to get rid of the "File Download - Security Warning" dialogue box.

Control Panel > File Options > File Types > (scrolled to XLS) > Advanced > uncheck "Confirm open after download"

Sorted that problem (although still have no idea why it quotes the file extention as _xls...

also still receive the following notifications:

https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2786

https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2785