Friend of mine send me an attachment and when i try to
open it with microsofts outlook expr. it says "oe removed
access to the following unsafe attacment in your mail".
Is this bad? Should i try to open it?Should i warn my
friend?......
I believe it says "*potentially* unsafe attachments." 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. There's nothing to warn your friend about.
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 warning, it's easy
to do so: go to Tools | Options, and on the security tab, uncheck
"Do not allow attachments..."
