Blocked Attachments

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Mark King

Hi all,

I have asked a friend of mine to email me his cd label maker program, which
is a very small file size hence the reason to email it to me.

The problem is, this program is a full program in itself and has a .exe
extension and I have Outlook XP, which blocks these types of attachments
with these extensions.

I know the reason for doing this is to prevent virus and such like getting
into my system, however I pay and subscribe to a popular Antivirus company
to ensure that my system is always up to date, I also use a hardware based
firewall as well, which also prevents any 'gremlins' from getting access to
my system.

It seems ridiculous that Outlook XP dosn't even give the user a choice of
whether or not they want to accept certain attachments. I know that this
one I am trying to recieve is from a trused source, and I have plent of
systems in place which prevent any unauthorised access to my PC.

Is there any way that I can recieve this attachment from my friend?

Many thanks in advance
Mark
 
-----Original Message-----
Hi all,

I have asked a friend of mine to email me his cd label maker program, which
is a very small file size hence the reason to email it to me.

The problem is, this program is a full program in itself and has a .exe
extension and I have Outlook XP, which blocks these types of attachments
with these extensions.

I know the reason for doing this is to prevent virus and such like getting
into my system, however I pay and subscribe to a popular Antivirus company
to ensure that my system is always up to date, I also use a hardware based
firewall as well, which also prevents any 'gremlins' from getting access to
my system.

It seems ridiculous that Outlook XP dosn't even give the user a choice of
whether or not they want to accept certain attachments. I know that this
one I am trying to recieve is from a trused source, and I have plent of
systems in place which prevent any unauthorised access to my PC.

Is there any way that I can recieve this attachment from my friend?

Many thanks in advance
Mark


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Slovak Technical Services have a program that enables
Click to expand...
you to change these attachment options via an extension
to the Outlook options panel.
They can be found at http://www.slovaktech.com/Default.htm
 
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