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fritz ahola said:
many of my e-mails cannot be opened. Subject bar says oe
removed access to the following unsafe attachments in
your mail. These are emails from friends of mine and I
know they are not infected. How do I removed this censor?
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, even if they are from friends
you trust. It's extremely difficult to be sure they are not
infected. 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 never open executable attachments at all, except
from a very few trusted sources, and then only when I'm expecting
them. But the choice is yours; if you want to remove this
warning, it's easy to do so: go to Tools | Options, and on the
security tab, uncheck "Do not allow attachments..."