Outlook Express Issue

[Frank Pecenka]

Can anyone advise as to how to turn off the Outlook Express feature that
blocks email attachments and prevents me from seeing desired attachments
people have sent me that I know are safe. This annoying and frustrating
trait shows a header bar stating 'OE removed access to the following unsafe
attachments in your email'. I find I cannot also view .JPG images that
people have sent with an email.
Please help as I've come up with a blank looking for a solution in the Tools
and Options menu.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Frank

 

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/Frank Pecenka/ said:

Can anyone advise as to how to turn off the Outlook Express feature that
blocks email attachments and prevents me from seeing desired attachments
people have sent me that I know are safe. This annoying and frustrating
trait shows a header bar stating 'OE removed access to the following unsafe
attachments in your email'. I find I cannot also view .JPG images that
people have sent with an email.
Please help as I've come up with a blank looking for a solution in the Tools
and Options menu.

TOOLS MENU|OPTIONS|SECURITY tab. Uncheck the box.

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Can anyone advise as to how to turn off the Outlook Express feature that
blocks email attachments and prevents me from seeing desired attachments
people have sent me that I know are safe. This annoying and frustrating
trait shows a header bar stating 'OE removed access to the following unsafe
attachments in your email'. I find I cannot also view .JPG images that
people have sent with an email.
Please help as I've come up with a blank looking for a solution in the Tools
and Options menu.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Frank

For the attachment issue:

OE>Tools>Options>Security Tab. Uncheck: "Do not allow
attachments........."

Please see these links about virus protection in OE 6.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291387
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=329570
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/why.htm#oe6attach

If you only have the option to save images as BMP:

Clear the Temporary Internet Files. In IE>Tools>Internet Options>
Delete Files button. And check the box to Delete Offline content.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Can anyone advise as to how to turn off the Outlook Express feature
that blocks email attachments and prevents me from seeing desired
attachments people have sent me that I know are safe. This annoying
and frustrating trait shows a header bar stating 'OE removed access
to the following unsafe attachments in your email'.

Starting with SP1, Outlook Express does this by default, for any
file type which *can* contain a virus. It's not a virus checker,
doesn't actually check the attachments, and this doesn't mean
that there actually is a virus there.

Such attachments *are* very risky. You often see advice not to
open attachments from people you don't know. I think that that's
one of the most dangerous pieces of advice you see around,
because it implies that it's safe to do the opposite--open
attachments from friends and relatives. But many viruses spread
by sending themselves to everyone in the infected party's address
book, so attachments received from friends are perhaps the *most*
risky to open.

Personally I think what Outlook Express does is good; I never
open executable attachments at all, except from a *very* few
trusted sources, and then only when I'm expecting them. But if
you want to remove this safeguard, it's easy to do so: go to
Tools | Options, and on the security tab, uncheck "Do not allow
attachments..."

 

[Guest]

go to tools options then sercurit
uncheck do not allow attachments check box this should give you access to the paper clip in your mail (be carefull) dennis