Receiving attachments in e-mail

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Your right! By installing the update, you can no longer
open pictures or files which contain the .exe format.
Microsoft has decided for us that virus are typically
spread using this format and has modified Outlook Express
so it can no longer be subject to accepting possible
viruses. Unfortunately there is no backing out of this
secruity update other than reformatting the hard drive
and not downloading the update the second time around. If
you are like me and you had several software applications
that relied upon using .exe devices to send things like
slideshows via emails, you are just hosed. You can still
insert photos in applications such as Microsoft Word, but
you can no longer use attachents unless your computer has
not had the update installed.
 
Rubbish Retrop

You can adjust the security settings within Outlook Express.

Tools/Options/Security - uncheck "Do not allow attachments to be saved or
opened which could potentially be a virus"

Pete
 
LOL

OE/Tools/security check box 4th down.

Hope you haven't reformatted yet.


| Your right! By installing the update, you can no longer
| open pictures or files which contain the .exe format.
| Microsoft has decided for us that virus are typically
| spread using this format and has modified Outlook Express
| so it can no longer be subject to accepting possible
| viruses. Unfortunately there is no backing out of this
| secruity update other than reformatting the hard drive
| and not downloading the update the second time around. If
| you are like me and you had several software applications
| that relied upon using .exe devices to send things like
| slideshows via emails, you are just hosed. You can still
| insert photos in applications such as Microsoft Word, but
| you can no longer use attachents unless your computer has
| not had the update installed.
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Since downloading the fix's, I can no longer get
| >attachments like pictures. It tells me that OE has
| >removed the attachment.
| >.
| >
 
-----Original Message-----
Your right! By installing the update, you can no longer
open pictures or files which contain the .exe format.
Microsoft has decided for us that virus are typically
spread using this format and has modified Outlook Express
so it can no longer be subject to accepting possible
viruses. Unfortunately there is no backing out of this
secruity update other than reformatting the hard drive
and not downloading the update the second time around. If
you are like me and you had several software applications
that relied upon using .exe devices to send things like
slideshows via emails, you are just hosed. You can still
insert photos in applications such as Microsoft Word, but
you can no longer use attachents unless your computer has
not had the update installed.
Click to expand...
"Your" an idiot. Others have posted the correct
answer, but if you want to send executables, what's to
stop you from sending the files without the .exe extension,
and telling the recipients to add it back on?
 
Greetings --

You've never even read OE's Help files, then, have you. You're
completely wrong.

Bruce Chambers

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