Outlook express

[Nicole]

Does anyone know how to do the following- whenever I
receive an e-mail from someone that has an attachment,
Outlook Express removes the attachment and I get a
message saying that it removed a suspect attachment.How
can I make this stop and how can I open the attachments
(if possible at all)? I'm not even sure this question is
appropriate for this board, but I'm not sure where else
to ask. Also, the attachments I am receiving are from
reliable sources that I trust, so I am not concerned with
opening them, but am just not being given the opportunity
to decide for myself. Any help??

 

[dev]

Does anyone know how to do the following- whenever I
receive an e-mail from someone that has an attachment,
Outlook Express removes the attachment and I get a
message saying that it removed a suspect attachment.How
can I make this stop and how can I open the attachments
(if possible at all)? I'm not even sure this question is
appropriate for this board, but I'm not sure where else
to ask. Also, the attachments I am receiving are from
reliable sources that I trust, so I am not concerned with
opening them, but am just not being given the opportunity
to decide for myself. Any help??

TOOLS menu|OPTIONS|SECURITY tab - UNcheck "do not allow attachments..."

 

[ras]

In O.E. - Tools | Options | Security tab. Uncheck "Do not allow attachments
to be....." Is this what you are talking about?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Does anyone know how to do the following- whenever I
receive an e-mail from someone that has an attachment,
Outlook Express removes the attachment and I get a
message saying that it removed a suspect attachment.How
can I make this stop and how can I open the attachments
(if possible at all)? I'm not even sure this question is
appropriate for this board, but I'm not sure where else
to ask. Also, the attachments I am receiving are from
reliable sources that I trust, so I am not concerned with
opening them, but am just not being given the opportunity
to decide for myself. Any help??

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 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]

Greetings --

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


Bruce Chambers

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