Outlook Security

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The Doctor

I foolishly downloaded the updates to Office 2003.
Outlook now decides for me what is a "potentially
dangerous" attachment and will not send it.

How do I rid myself of this intrusion?
 
Um... Outlook 2003 has always blocked attachments.

It's new to OE though.... hit forward, then save the attachment :)
It's a new security feature to prevent accidental opening of viruses, either
by yourself or scripting. you can disable it in tools | options | security,
but I think the extra effort to hit forward is safer and well worth the
extra click.
http://www.omegageek.com/OESecurity.htm
 
This "safety" feature is not new. I had downloaded a patch for a much
earlier version of Outlook (not OLE) and it had this feature in the patch.
Fortunately for me several sectors of my HD went bad and the affected part
was OL. Its the only way I was able to rid myself of this misery inflicted
on us.
This should be an option not a done deal. I'm quite capable of monitoring
what I send to others; I don't need a babysitter. I'm covered six ways to
Sunday for viruses and spyware and don't need Billy Gates to watch out for
me. Using just a bit of common sense would prevent the passing around of
any virus.

Bye the way, in OL, forwarding still eliminates the attachment.

Diane Poremsky said:
Um... Outlook 2003 has always blocked attachments.

It's new to OE though.... hit forward, then save the attachment :)
It's a new security feature to prevent accidental opening of viruses, either
by yourself or scripting. you can disable it in tools | options | security,
but I think the extra effort to hit forward is safer and well worth the
extra click.
http://www.omegageek.com/OESecurity.htm


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)





The Doctor said:
I foolishly downloaded the updates to Office 2003.
Outlook now decides for me what is a "potentially
dangerous" attachment and will not send it.

How do I rid myself of this intrusion?
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Forward the message as an attachment and the blocked attachment remains.

There are a million (well, ok, at least 9) ways to access the attachments in
Outlook, 2 ways to open it in OE and too many millions of clueless users who
proved they would click on anything and everything. It's better to block the
attachments and make users unblock them then it is to leave them open and
make users block them - none would get blocked and we'd be even more swamped
with virus infected messages then we are today.

Because 'Billy Gates' is watching out for you, none of the viruses released
in at least the last year use automation features in Outlook or are strictly
OE and OL viruses - they are just as effective in any mail client, get the
addresses they use from web pages or newsgroups and provide their own SMTP
engine.

It looks like you didn't munge your address... you can expect quit a few
infected messages from readers who aren't using Outlook or OE with blocked
attachments. But thanks to Billy's plan to protect users from themselves,
your mailbox won't get hammered as bad as it would have in the past. :)

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)





The Doctor said:
This "safety" feature is not new. I had downloaded a patch for a much
earlier version of Outlook (not OLE) and it had this feature in the patch.
Fortunately for me several sectors of my HD went bad and the affected part
was OL. Its the only way I was able to rid myself of this misery
inflicted
on us.
This should be an option not a done deal. I'm quite capable of monitoring
what I send to others; I don't need a babysitter. I'm covered six ways to
Sunday for viruses and spyware and don't need Billy Gates to watch out for
me. Using just a bit of common sense would prevent the passing around of
any virus.

Bye the way, in OL, forwarding still eliminates the attachment.

Diane Poremsky said:
Um... Outlook 2003 has always blocked attachments.

It's new to OE though.... hit forward, then save the attachment :)
It's a new security feature to prevent accidental opening of viruses, either
by yourself or scripting. you can disable it in tools | options | security,
but I think the extra effort to hit forward is safer and well worth the
extra click.
http://www.omegageek.com/OESecurity.htm


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)





The Doctor said:
I foolishly downloaded the updates to Office 2003.
Outlook now decides for me what is a "potentially
dangerous" attachment and will not send it.

How do I rid myself of this intrusion?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
MS still has a long way to go. Even their patches need patches need
patches. Let them get it right the first or even the second time around and
they won't have to block everyone's email for them.

My clients don't have to know how to get to a blocked attachment 'cause OL
wouldn't attach the "potentially dangerous" attachment in the first place.
How many ways do you have to get around that? The better mouse trap (aka
any and all email apps) would have a built in anti-virus that would allow
all non-infected attachments to be attached and infected attachments to be
instantly deleted. I'm still a believer in caveat emptor. Let the buyer
beware or in this case wary.



Diane Poremsky said:
Forward the message as an attachment and the blocked attachment remains.

There are a million (well, ok, at least 9) ways to access the attachments in
Outlook, 2 ways to open it in OE and too many millions of clueless users who
proved they would click on anything and everything. It's better to block the
attachments and make users unblock them then it is to leave them open and
make users block them - none would get blocked and we'd be even more swamped
with virus infected messages then we are today.

Because 'Billy Gates' is watching out for you, none of the viruses released
in at least the last year use automation features in Outlook or are strictly
OE and OL viruses - they are just as effective in any mail client, get the
addresses they use from web pages or newsgroups and provide their own SMTP
engine.

It looks like you didn't munge your address... you can expect quit a few
infected messages from readers who aren't using Outlook or OE with blocked
attachments. But thanks to Billy's plan to protect users from themselves,
your mailbox won't get hammered as bad as it would have in the past. :)

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)





The Doctor said:
This "safety" feature is not new. I had downloaded a patch for a much
earlier version of Outlook (not OLE) and it had this feature in the patch.
Fortunately for me several sectors of my HD went bad and the affected part
was OL. Its the only way I was able to rid myself of this misery
inflicted
on us.
This should be an option not a done deal. I'm quite capable of monitoring
what I send to others; I don't need a babysitter. I'm covered six ways to
Sunday for viruses and spyware and don't need Billy Gates to watch out for
me. Using just a bit of common sense would prevent the passing around of
any virus.

Bye the way, in OL, forwarding still eliminates the attachment.

Diane Poremsky said:
Um... Outlook 2003 has always blocked attachments.

It's new to OE though.... hit forward, then save the attachment :)
It's a new security feature to prevent accidental opening of viruses, either
by yourself or scripting. you can disable it in tools | options | security,
but I think the extra effort to hit forward is safer and well worth the
extra click.
http://www.omegageek.com/OESecurity.htm


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)





I foolishly downloaded the updates to Office 2003.
Outlook now decides for me what is a "potentially
dangerous" attachment and will not send it.

How do I rid myself of this intrusion?
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