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Ron McKenzie said:
Running xp pro with explorer 6.0. and cannot open any e-
mail attachments.
Receive message "OE has removed access to the following
attachments in your e-mail" this happens even with test e-
mails sent to myself.
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 never open executable attachments at all, except
from a *very* few trusted sources, and then only when I'm
expecting them. But it's your choice; 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..."
Need Help please repley to my e-mail address
Sorry, no. No E-mail support.
