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Alden said:
I have a new installation of Outlook Express
It is rejecting files/PDF's that are sent to me
I know that there is a setting some where to correct this
If you're getting a message that says something like "Outlook
Express has removed access to the following unsafe
attachments...," starting with SP1, 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.
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 safeguard, it's
easy to do so: go to Tools | Options, and on the security tab,
uncheck "Do not allow attachments...."
