Illegible email attachments

[Guest]

Hi,

Perhaps 5% of my incoming email and, more often, email attachments are
illegible. I get a page filled with symbols that look like:

@@ñ½mC\ª·!†5ÿícÄ﷓ ‡R×g2ÊÓH#™À £ôýEvö<¿Åþo‡¾6Ò#ñ Ôº ˆ®ï] üÃy

Sometimes, if this happens with an incoming email, when I click "Reply" to
answer it, the page clears up and I can read it.

With attachments, I've found no way to make them legible.

I was told that these illegible pages are signs that a program I'm using is
trying to read incoming photos as text and that if I go to Tools/Folder
Options in XP, I can correct it.

I went to XP/Tools/Folder Options and there are three programs I can see
there that might read photos. They are JPE, JPEG and JPG and they are all are
described as "Paint Shop Photo Album 5 Picture" but I can't tell which, if
any of them, are causing the problem and if one or all of them are causing
it, how to correct it or them.

Is this the right way to correct this illegibility problem?

Should I even have all three of these programs?

Should I delete two of them?

Which two?

If I should keep them all, or any of them, how do I correct it or them to
read the incoming email photos properly?


Bruce

 

[Marvin]

If you go to tools/options/security in Outlook Express toolbar and untick
the boxes that say "do not allow attachments to be opened or saved that
could potentially be a virus" and "block images and other external content
in HTML mail" that should fix it.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Still opening email attachments indiscriminately, are you? Spammers and
malware writers love folks like you.

--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

Hi,

Perhaps 5% of my incoming email and, more often, email attachments are
illegible. I get a page filled with symbols that look like:

@@ñ½mC\ª·!†5ÿícÄ﷓ ‡R×g2ÊÓH#™À

£ôýEvö<¿Åþo‡¾6Ò#ñ Ôº ˆ®ï] üÃy

 

[Guest]

If you go to tools/options/security in Outlook Express toolbar and untick
the boxes that say "do not allow attachments to be opened or saved that
could potentially be a virus" and "block images and other external content
in HTML mail" that should fix it.

Hi Marvin,

Thanks for trying to help me.

I tried this but an attachment I've saved in my Mozilla email files is
still illegible.

I don't use Outlook anyway but use Mozilla. How could changing Outlook
help me?

 

[Guest]

Still opening email attachments indiscriminately, are you? Spammers and
malware writers love folks like you.

I don't under stand this reply. Is he trying to help me or just making a
statement? If it's an attempt to help me in the future from similar
problems, OK but if it's an attempt to help me now, I don't understand it.

My problem now, is repeated below.


Bruce

Hi,

Perhaps 5% of my incoming email and, more often, email attachments are
illegible. I get a page filled with symbols that look like:

@@ñ½mC\ª·!†5ÿícÄ﷓ ‡R×g2ÊÓH#™À

£ôýEvö<¿Åþo‡¾6Ã’#ñ Ãâ€Ã‚º ˆ®ï] üÃy

Sometimes, if this happens with an incoming email, when I click "Reply" to
answer it, the page clears up and I can read it.

With attachments, I've found no way to make them legible.

I was told that these illegible pages are signs that a program I'm using is
trying to read incoming photos as text and that if I go to Tools/Folder
Options in XP, I can correct it.

I went to XP/Tools/Folder Options and there are three programs I can see
there that might read photos. They are JPE, JPEG and JPG and they are all are
described as "Paint Shop Photo Album 5 Picture" but I can't tell which, if
any of them, are causing the problem and if one or all of them are causing
it, how to correct it or them.

Is this the right way to correct this illegibility problem?

Should I even have all three of these programs?

Should I delete two of them?

Which two?

If I should keep them all, or any of them, how do I correct it or them to
read the incoming email photos properly?


Bruce

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

He's telling you to stop opening the damn things in order to stop having the
problems.

Tom

Still opening email attachments indiscriminately, are you? Spammers and
malware writers love folks like you.

I don't under stand this reply. Is he trying to help me or just making a
statement? If it's an attempt to help me in the future from similar
problems, OK but if it's an attempt to help me now, I don't understand it.

My problem now, is repeated below.


Bruce

Hi,

Perhaps 5% of my incoming email and, more often, email attachments are
illegible. I get a page filled with symbols that look like:

@@ñ½mC\ª·!â? 5ÿícÃ"ï·" â?¡RÃ-g2ÃSÃ"H#â"¢Ã?

£ôýEvö<¿Ã.þoâ?¡Â¾6Ã'#ñ Ã"º Ë?®ï] üÃfy

Sometimes, if this happens with an incoming email, when I click "Reply"
to
answer it, the page clears up and I can read it.

With attachments, I've found no way to make them legible.

I was told that these illegible pages are signs that a program I'm
using is
trying to read incoming photos as text and that if I go to Tools/Folder
Options in XP, I can correct it.

I went to XP/Tools/Folder Options and there are three programs I can
see
there that might read photos. They are JPE, JPEG and JPG and they are
all are
described as "Paint Shop Photo Album 5 Picture" but I can't tell which,
if
any of them, are causing the problem and if one or all of them are
causing
it, how to correct it or them.

Is this the right way to correct this illegibility problem?

Should I even have all three of these programs?

Should I delete two of them?

Which two?

If I should keep them all, or any of them, how do I correct it or them
to
read the incoming email photos properly?


Bruce