Outlook Express

[Raymond]

I have a message that Outlook Express removed access to
how can I regain access to this message when I know it is
safe?

[Jim Macklin]

If you mean attachment, open Outlook
Express/Tools/Options...security tab and uncheck the 4th
box.

Be aware that you will now be more likely to get a virus so
take extra precautions.


"Raymond" > wrote in
message ...
| I have a message that Outlook Express removed access to
| how can I regain access to this message when I know it is
| safe?

[Ken Blake]

In ,
Raymond > typed:

> I have a message that Outlook Express removed access to
> how can I regain access to this message when I know it is
> safe?


Are you asking about 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..."

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

[PA Bear]

See http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/problems/performance.htm
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HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Protect Your PC
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Konrad wrote:
>> Internet Problem:
>>
>> We have an HP desktop computer (Windows ME) and an HP laptop computer
>> (Windows XP). There is no problem receiving e-mail --- it downloads in
>> a flash, however, when we use the laptop with Windows XP to send an
>> e-mail it takes forever to transmit (it says connecting at the bottom
>> and when it connects it sends promptly). The arrow coming from the
>> outbox goes on and on and sometimes the sending fails completely with
>> the message that the server did not recognize the mail receiver.
>> However, at the bottom right corner it says connecting and when
>> connected it is promptly sent. We do not experience the problem with
>> the desktop. Does anybody have an answer to this problem?