Outlook Express

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I cannot open up some word attachments- Message says "OE
has removed following unsafe attachments from your email"

 

[Bruce Hagen]

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

And see these articles 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

Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - (IE/OE)
~IB-CA~

 

[Jim Macklin]

Tools/Options, security tab, 4th box, uncheck.

Be careful about what attachments you open.


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|I cannot open up some word attachments- Message says "OE
| has removed following unsafe attachments from your email"

 

[Plato]

I cannot open up some word attachments- Message says "OE
has removed following unsafe attachments from your email"

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[Ken Blake]

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I cannot open up some word attachments- Message says "OE
has removed following unsafe attachments from 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..."

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I cannot open up some word attachments- Message says "OE
has removed following unsafe attachments from your email"

Outlook Express' default security settings are simply trying to
protect you. OE has no way of telling whether an attachment actually
contains a virus or not, so it temporarily blocks any of those file
types that could potentially contain a virus. In Outlook Express,
Tools > Options > Security, uncheck the "Do not allow attachments to
be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus" option, assuming
you trust the source, of course. The wiser course of action, however,
would be to modify your list of unsafe files, as outlined in the KB
articles below:

Cannot Open E-Mail Attachments in OE After You Install SP1
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q329570

Information About the Unsafe File List in Internet Explorer 6
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;291369

OLEXP Using Virus Protection Features in Outlook Express 6
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;291387

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[John Clifford Hole]

Click on Tools > Options > Security and uncheck the "Do not allow
attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus"

But before doing this make sure that you have a good - fully up-dated -
virus checking program installed or you could get into serious trouble.

Also you could click on OUTBOX then right-click on OE's TOOLBAR then on
CUSTOMIZE and add PREVIEW to it so that you can switch on,or off,the PREVIEW
PANE so that emails don't automatically open.

John Clifford Hole [MVP] of Enfield Middlesex