banmicrosofttoo:
You're right. It goes without saying (;robably) that you CAN filter easily - I just enter ".exe" in the filters/text area - and I never SEE a SINGLE .exe.

The standard thinking was always "don't download executables," and Limewire even pops up a warning - but it seems now the biggest problem is these damn zips/rars. I imagine they're inherently "safer," since they might not "self extract," - whereas an executable could/would. But filtering both would be great, if you could attach a size parameter (allow all BUT) to ANY type file we knew as a community was "bad."