oe problem

[Phil]

I am having trouble receiving attachments in outlook express.
I have sent a test file to myself, and when the file arrives it says that
"oe removed access to the following unsafe attachments in your mail"

how do I stop this please ?

thanks.

Phil

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Phil

Try this

Open OE and go to Tools>Options>Security and uncheck 'Do not allow
attachments to be saved...'.

 

[Gordon]

Phil wrote:
|| I am having trouble receiving attachments in outlook express.
|| I have sent a test file to myself, and when the file arrives it says
|| that "oe removed access to the following unsafe attachments in your
|| mail"
||
|| how do I stop this please ?
||
|| thanks.
||
|| Phil

Did you actually try googling for this message?
Obviously not. It's the most asked question in history.

Tools-Options-Security

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

I am having trouble receiving attachments in outlook express.
I have sent a test file to myself, and when the file arrives it says that
"oe removed access to the following unsafe attachments in your mail"

how do I stop this please ?

thanks.

Phil

In OE go to Tools | Options | Security and uncheck "Do not allow attachments
to be saved or opened that could
potentially be a virus".

Please read these articles:

Using Virus Protection Features in Outlook Express 6
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291387
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329570
Description of how the Attachment Manager works in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883260
and http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/why.htm#oe6attach
If you've installed XP SP2, then see:
Description of how the Attachment Manager works in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883260

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[Ken Blake]

In

I am having trouble receiving attachments in outlook express.
I have sent a test file to myself, and when the file arrives it
says
that "oe removed access to the following unsafe attachments in
your
mail"
how do I stop this please ?

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.


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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 am having trouble receiving attachments in outlook express.
I have sent a test file to myself, and when the file arrives it says that
"oe removed access to the following unsafe attachments in your mail"

how do I stop this please ?

thanks.

Phil

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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Bruce Chambers

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