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palala said:
need some assistance. Outlook express is "stripping" large
file
attachments on incoming e mails. (eg 80 page win doc.) but does
let in
some files with jpg
file names.
would appreciate advice on how to correct these occurences.
Starting with SP1, Outlook Express does this by default, for any
file type which *can* contain a virus A .doc file can contain a
macro 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 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..."
