Suspicious messages

[Jimvee]

I have a subscription to a comic site that sends me a daily e-mail with
newspaper comics.
Every day, it's marked in red and brings up the following message when I try
to open it.
The message is in a red warning box. I was suitably impressed and scared the
first 100 times,
but it's getting old. This is the only e-mail I've ever seen to get this
treatment.

Is Windows Mail doing it? Is there a way to tell them that this sender is
safe?

"Windows Mail thinks this message is suspicious and has blocked it. Images
and links have been blocked for your safety. If you think this mail is not
fraudulent, use the unblock button to access it."

Vista Home Premium. SP2 IE8

Jim

 

[Laura]

I have a subscription to a comic site that sends me a daily e-mail with
newspaper comics.
Every day, it's marked in red and brings up the following message when I
try to open it.
The message is in a red warning box. I was suitably impressed and scared
the first 100 times,
but it's getting old. This is the only e-mail I've ever seen to get this
treatment.

Is Windows Mail doing it? Is there a way to tell them that this sender is
safe?

"Windows Mail thinks this message is suspicious and has blocked it. Images
and links have been blocked for your safety. If you think this mail is not
fraudulent, use the unblock button to access it."

Vista Home Premium. SP2 IE8

Have you added the sender's e-mail address and/or domain to your safe
senders list? (Tools>>Junk e-mail options)

Also check your security settings to allow html and other images
(Tools>>Options>>Security tab).

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

In addition to what Laura suggested, you may have to turn the phishing
filter off: Tools, Junk E-mail Options, Phishing.

 

[Jimvee]

In addition to what Laura suggested, you may have to turn the phishing
filter off: Tools, Junk E-mail Options, Phishing.

Duh!!! I completely missed the phishing tab. The red mail already came in
today, but I bet that's the problem. I'm a slow typist, so didn't add that
the warning box also had a "what is phishing" link that I had clicked, but
just told me what I already knew.

There were six versions of the senders e-mail addy in my safe senders list,
so I guess I'd already been down that road.

BTW: I was having the problem with not opening .PPS files in mail. The
registry fix did fix it but it broke again after IE8. I'm still reading
articles from back in June, but someone recommended opening IE8, THEN
WinMail and it worked. For me, anyway.

Thanks
Jim

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[Gary VanderMolen]

Difficulty with opening attachments in Windows Mail is a known issue
that is affecting some who installed IE8. You should be able to save
attachments and then open them outside of Windows Mail.

If you decide to uninstall IE8, follow these instructions:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700

Instead of uninstalling IE8, another option is to upgrade
your email program to Windows Live Mail:
http://download.live.com/wlmail