Blocked links in Outlook Emails

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Bill Godwin

Everytime I get an email with a link in the email, the link is automatically
blocked by Outlook. How do you turn this feature off?
 
I am using Office 2007. This is the message I get each time, Microsoft
Office has identified a potential security concer. This location may be
unsafe. (and then the location) Hyperlinks can be harmful to your computer
and data. To protect your computer, click only those hyperlinks from trusted
sources.
Do you want continue?

Yes No

Each time I click on yes. I get a box that states Access is denied. Any
idea how to turn this off?

Diane Poremsky said:
What exactly happens? What version of outlook?


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Bill Godwin said:
Everytime I get an email with a link in the email, the link is
automatically
blocked by Outlook. How do you turn this feature off?
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Are they attachments or text links? I don't recall ever seeing that message
with links. Do you have an antivirus program installed that integrates with
windows security center? That can prevent some warnings can could explain
why not everyone sees it.

I found this KB - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925757 - it looks like it
only happens when hyperlinked to exe files. Regular hyperlinks to pages
should work ok.



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Bill Godwin said:
I am using Office 2007. This is the message I get each time, Microsoft
Office has identified a potential security concer. This location may be
unsafe. (and then the location) Hyperlinks can be harmful to your computer
and data. To protect your computer, click only those hyperlinks from
trusted
sources.
Do you want continue?

Yes No

Each time I click on yes. I get a box that states Access is denied. Any
idea how to turn this off?

Diane Poremsky said:
What exactly happens? What version of outlook?


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Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/



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Bill Godwin said:
Everytime I get an email with a link in the email, the link is
automatically
blocked by Outlook. How do you turn this feature off?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
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Bill said:
Everytime I get an email with a link in the email, the link is
automatically blocked by Outlook. How do you turn this feature off?
Click to expand...

Just HOW are these links blocked? Vague questions get unfocused
replies. If you mean URLs look like "blocked::http://..." then that is
a security feature of Outlook. See:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011841931033.aspx

This article is for Outlook 2003 (and probably applies to Outlook 2007,
too). It looks like this anti-phish safety feature is enabled by the
"Don't turn on links in messages that might connect to unsafe sites"
option. So just to where do those URL links go?

That MS article states "If the Junk E-mail Filter considers the message
to be both spam and suspicious, but if the sender (for instance,
(e-mail address removed)) or domain (for instance, @example.com) is on your
Safe Senders List, then the message is left in the Inbox, but the links
in the message are disabled."

So although you may have whitelisted the sender of the e-mail, OL2003+
will still disable the URL links if it thinks the e-mail is spam. If
the "block" is something else, you'll have to tell us what you see.


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