Gmail email account has a virus scanner that scans email attachments and block them appropriately. Gmail email account also blocks .exe files. So, you can't send exe files via Gmail. Yes of course I mean that you cannot sent them directly
Mainly 3 ways can be employed to do this .Now let us discuss them here.
Rename The Extension of the compressed file.
For this method you will have to compress to .zip format if you do not have any other softwares like WinRar to do that.This method is found to work completely for the .zip files. All you have to do is to change the extension to something which cannot be recognized by Gmail. For Eg : you can change the setup.zip to setup.<your name>.Then you can attach it to your mail and send it to the target.
NB:
- Make sure you tell the person you're mailing to rename it to .zip on the other end so that they can extract it.
- Here Gmail is depending on the extension to recognize the file types.
- A simple method by which Gmail can avoid this hack is by making use of the fact that "All zip files start with the bytes 'PK' "
Use WinRar software for compressing
Download the WinRar application and compress the .exe file using this application.The file you get will be in the .rar format.This can be easily sent via Gmail.In some occasions this may not work well.So you will have to encrypt the file names also before sending.
Use Online file storage services for sharing.
There are many file storage services in the web which will allow you to store the files online.We can make use of these to share the files with our friends.All you have to do is to send the link to the file to the target.So when the target clicks on the link it will allow him to download the file.
You can avail the service of Ziddushare for such things.A simple registration process will allow us to upload files to our account.Also we are getting paid for the uploads.The main highlight of this service is that the registration is free.Ziddu.com has no wait times.
