Outlook Express Attachments

[Greg Fitzgerald]

I have set up a new identity in Outlook Express 6.0 on XP home
edition. I then copied in some folders from my old OE identity from
another PC onto the XP pc so i could keep all my folders and emails
etc. Now some of my attachments i.e. '.pdf' and '.xls' files shows the
file attachment and the save attacment greyed out, so i can't do
anyting, when i clik on the paper clip. when i double click on email
to open OE dispalys a message
'OE removed acces to the following unsafe attachment in your email'
there must be seeting somewhere for me to change. can anyone help

[randwulf57]

Greg Fitzgerald:
Open Outlook Express; click Tools>Options>Security. Uncheck "Do Not Allow
Attachments..." and click OK
--
randwulf57

"Greg Fitzgerald" > wrote in message
om...
> I have set up a new identity in Outlook Express 6.0 on XP home
> edition. I then copied in some folders from my old OE identity from
> another PC onto the XP pc so i could keep all my folders and emails
> etc. Now some of my attachments i.e. '.pdf' and '.xls' files shows the
> file attachment and the save attacment greyed out, so i can't do
> anyting, when i clik on the paper clip. when i double click on email
> to open OE dispalys a message
> 'OE removed acces to the following unsafe attachment in your email'
> there must be seeting somewhere for me to change. can anyone help

[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


Microsoft implemented this change to prevent users from inadvertedly
executing viruses and other bad code within unexpected attachments. It is
ALWAYS a bad to open an unexpected attachment. Verify the sender sent the
attachment before opening.





--
Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP

Find out about the MS MVP Program -
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

"Greg Fitzgerald" > wrote in message
om...
> I have set up a new identity in Outlook Express 6.0 on XP home
> edition. I then copied in some folders from my old OE identity from
> another PC onto the XP pc so i could keep all my folders and emails
> etc. Now some of my attachments i.e. '.pdf' and '.xls' files shows the
> file attachment and the save attacment greyed out, so i can't do
> anyting, when i clik on the paper clip. when i double click on email
> to open OE dispalys a message
> 'OE removed acces to the following unsafe attachment in your email'
> there must be seeting somewhere for me to change. can anyone help

[Ken Blake]

In om,
Greg Fitzgerald > typed:

> when i double click on email
> to open OE dispalys a message
> 'OE removed acces to the following unsafe attachment in your
email'
> there must be seeting somewhere for me to change. can anyone
help


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
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[Grant]

"Ken Blake" > wrote in message
...
> In om,
> Greg Fitzgerald > typed:
>
> > when i double click on email
> > to open OE dispalys a message
> > 'OE removed acces to the following unsafe attachment in your
> email'
> > there must be seeting somewhere for me to change. can anyone
> help
>
>
> 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.

PDF files can contain viruses? I thought only .exe, .bat, .pif, .scr, .vbs,
office files (macros) and zip files (if they contain the previous) could be
viruses.