OE IS REMOVING ATTACHMENTS HOW DO I STOP IT

OE keeps removing attachments saying they are unsafe how
do I stop this from happening can someone please help
thanks.

[Jason Tsang]

If you are sure the attachement is safe...

Goto Tools, Options
Then goto the Security tab
Uncheck "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could
potentially be a virus"

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





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> OE keeps removing attachments saying they are unsafe how
> do I stop this from happening can someone please help
> thanks.
>

[Norm]

In OE click Tools, Options and then the Security tab. Uncheck the box that
states "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened......".
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> OE keeps removing attachments saying they are unsafe how
> do I stop this from happening can someone please help
> thanks.
>
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[Ken Blake]

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> typed:

> OE keeps removing attachments saying they are unsafe how
> do I stop this from happening can someone please help
> thanks.


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..."

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[Frank Jelenko]

Just to build on, I always do a back up of my key data before opening any
email attachment. [Of course, as Ken mentions, if I was expecting a
specific file from a specific person, I'd probably not worry about it -
providing I trusted the other person and knew they had used the file]
"Ken Blake" > wrote in message
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> In ,
> > typed:
>
> > OE keeps removing attachments saying they are unsafe how
> > do I stop this from happening can someone please help
> > thanks.
>
>
> 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..."
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>

[NobodyMan]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:04:50 -0800, > wrote:

>OE keeps removing attachments saying they are unsafe how
>do I stop this from happening can someone please help
>thanks.

Hey, you waited a whole 14 minutes before irritating everybody with
your second whine for help. Impatience isn't usually dealt with very
well here. YELLING your request in the subject line doesn't add much
sympathy either.

I'll repeat my first advice: go to a newsgroup that deals with OE.
This one is for the XP OS. Bye bye now.