All Attachments Removed by Outlook Express (O.E)

[Hans]

I'm a bit of a neophyte at this so forgive me if I am in
the wrong location to pose this question.
I am running Windows XP Home with Version 6.0 of O.E. I
am also using the latest version of McAfee. Here is my
problem....every time I receive or send a message with an
attachment, the attachment is automatically deleted. The
following message is above the header, "O.E. removed
access to the following unsafe attachment in your email:
etc." I know that the attachments that I am sending are
OK and I am also certain that the attachments that I am
receiving are also OK". In addition,I have scanned my
system with the ates updates to McAfee and I do not have
any viruses.
Can anyone get me on track.

Thanks,

Hans

 

[Nicholas]

Hans --

1. Start Outlook Express.
2. On the Tools menu, click Options.
3. Click the Security tab, click to clear the "Do not allow attachments to be
saved or opened that could potentially be a virus" check box under
Virus Protection, and then click OK.

Applicable Microsoft Knowledge Base Article:

Cannot Open E-Mail Attachments in Outlook Express After You Install SP1
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q329570


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Nicholas

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| I'm a bit of a neophyte at this so forgive me if I am in
| the wrong location to pose this question.
| I am running Windows XP Home with Version 6.0 of O.E. I
| am also using the latest version of McAfee. Here is my
| problem....every time I receive or send a message with an
| attachment, the attachment is automatically deleted. The
| following message is above the header, "O.E. removed
| access to the following unsafe attachment in your email:
| etc." I know that the attachments that I am sending are
| OK and I am also certain that the attachments that I am
| receiving are also OK". In addition,I have scanned my
| system with the ates updates to McAfee and I do not have
| any viruses.
| Can anyone get me on track.
|
| Thanks,
|
| Hans

 

[Hans]

Nichols, worked like a charm. I actually had gone in
there previously but it didn't make sense to me since the
word "potentially" is in the box. Since I was already
sure that the messages were OK I assumed that they were
not "potentially" a virus. Must be the engineer in me!
Thanks for your assistance. One question: Should I have
asked for this at a different newsgroup?

Regards,

Hans