Should I post Flash exe to web?

Question

Sorry, I don't have a lot of experience with audio and video on the Web.

I've been given a Flash tutorial to post to the corporate website that is an .exe file with an embedded Flash player. Users will be on IE, so I guess they would get the run/save prompt.

I don't like this and I know it generally isn't done, but I need to know if it is OK to just do it. When I try to explain the security issues with executable files, eyes glaze. Is it possible that the users' system admins would be able to block the run prompt and make the user save the file? Could they block that too? The user community is hopeless, so having the embedded Flash player could be a good thing.

Answer 1

Any executable can be blocked by corporate IT policy. That said, there is nothing inherently wrong with publishing a .exe file. That's how shareware is distributed, after all, and most commercial software as well. Caveat emptor.