Opening Attachments in 2003

[Sherry]

This is so frustrating! In my line of work, I get numerous attachments
of .zip, .doc, .txt and .pdf. I have NAV running and scanning all
incoming email.

Sometimes, when I right click on the attachment and select "Open" (or
double click on the attachment), I get an "Attachment Security
Warning" that makes me save the file to the hard drive, which I really
don't always want to do. However, sometimes, I can open the file with
no problem. Why would I even have a problem with a .txt file? Surely
those can't carry viruses, can they?

Can I over-ride this? Why is it not allowing me to open some zip files
yet allowing me to open others?

I do have TweakOL2003 and DetachOL by McDaniel Development, which are
used to disble attachment security. Could it be an issue with that
utility?

Thanks,
Sherry

 

[=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Christian_G=F6ller?=]

Sherry schrieb am 16.01.2005 18:57:

Hello Sherry,

This is so frustrating! In my line of work, I get numerous attachments
of .zip, .doc, .txt and .pdf. I have NAV running and scanning all
incoming email.

Sometimes, when I right click on the attachment and select "Open" (or
double click on the attachment), I get an "Attachment Security
Warning" that makes me save the file to the hard drive, which I really
don't always want to do. However, sometimes, I can open the file with
no problem. Why would I even have a problem with a .txt file? Surely
those can't carry viruses, can they?

Can I over-ride this? Why is it not allowing me to open some zip files
yet allowing me to open others?

I do have TweakOL2003 and DetachOL by McDaniel Development, which are
used to disble attachment security. Could it be an issue with that
utility?

Hello Sherry,

close Outlook, open the Windows-Registry and go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security

In the right window create an new entry via

Rightclick | New | Zeichenfolge (I don't know the english name for this
- it is the second entry))

with the name "RemoveWarningFileTypes" (without ""). Then doubleclick it
and put in all fileextensions seperated by ; which you want to open
without saving before, by example

exe;bat;zip;....

In german I could explain the reason for your problem, but in english -
no chance because my english is too bad to make it clear to you ;-). Do
my suggestion above and you will be able to open the attachements
without saving before ;-)