Outlook Express

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keep getting msg "OE removed access to the following
unsafe attachments in your mail". Even shows up on emails
I "cc" myself with word doc as attachment. what's that
about?

 

[Bruce]

keep getting msg "OE removed access to the following
unsafe attachments in your mail". Even shows up on emails
I "cc" myself with word doc as attachment. what's that
about?

OE>Tools>Options>Security Tab. Uncheck: "Do not allow attachments........."

Please see these links about virus protection in OE 6.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291387
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=329570
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/why.htm#oe6attach

Bruce

 

[Kodar]

Open Outlook Express and go to Tool / Options / Security
and remove the checkmark from "Do not allow
attachments.." Click Apply and then OK, close Outlook
Express and reopen it, and you should have access to the
attachments.

 

[Lucy]

-----Original Message-----
keep getting msg "OE removed access to the following
unsafe attachments in your mail". Even shows up on emails
I "cc" myself with word doc as attachment. what's that
about?
.

Tools -> Options -> Security -> Uncheck the second tick
box

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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keep getting msg "OE removed access to the following
unsafe attachments in your mail". Even shows up on emails
I "cc" myself with word doc as attachment. what's that
about?

Starting with SP1, Outlook Express does this by default, for any
file type which *can* contain a virus (including Word documents,
which can comtain macro viruses). 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..."

 

[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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