Outlook Express

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Bob Ellison

Hi

When using my email client Outlook Express, I get a
message when I recieve emails with attachments. The
message is:

"OE removed access to the following unsafe attachments in
your mail."

This is great that it is thinking of me, but I get this
message for all attachments, even emails I send home from
work that is scanned before release.

Can anyone help me????
 
Greetings,

To open attachments follow this steps:

1) Open up Outlook Express
2) Click on Tools > Options
3) Click on the "Security" tab and untick "Do not allow attachments to be
saved or opened that could potentially be a virus"

Thanks and best of luck!
 
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Bob Ellison said:
When using my email client Outlook Express, I get a
message when I recieve emails with attachments. The
message is:

"OE removed access to the following unsafe attachments in
your mail."

This is great that it is thinking of me, but I get this
message for all attachments, even emails I send home from
work that is scanned before release.
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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 think what Outlook Express does is good; 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..."
 
Greetings --

Outlook Express' default security settings are simply trying to
protect you. OE has no way of telling whether an attachment actually
contains a virus or not, so it temporarily blocks any of those file
types that could potentially contain a virus. In Outlook Express,
Tools > Options > Security, uncheck the "Do not allow attachments to
be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus" option, assuming
you trust the source, of course. The wiser course of action, however,
would be to modify your list of unsafe files, as outlined in the KB
articles below:

Cannot Open E-Mail Attachments in OE After You Install SP1
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q329570

Information About the Unsafe File List in Internet Explorer 6
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;291369

OLEXP Using Virus Protection Features in Outlook Express 6
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;291387


Bruce Chambers
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