E Mail attachments

[Hy Corwin]

On occasion Outlook Express will not allow an attachment
to be opened.The notice reads"Removed access to the
\following unsafe attachments in your mail " The
attachment was a picture of a bird.How do I turn this
censor9ing off ?

[Nicholas]

Hy --

1. Start Outlook Express.=20
2. On the Tools menu, click Options.=20
3. Click the Security tab, click to clear the "Do not allow =
attachments to be=20
saved or opened that could potentially be a virus" check box =
under=20
Virus Protection, and then click OK.

Applicable Microsoft Knowledge Base Article:

Cannot Open E-Mail Attachments in Outlook Express After You Install SP1
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3Dkb;en-us;q329570=20


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Nicholas

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"Hy Corwin" > wrote in message:
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| On occasion Outlook Express will not allow an attachment=20
| to be opened.The notice reads"Removed access to the=20
| \following unsafe attachments in your mail " The=20
| attachment was a picture of a bird.How do I turn this =20
| censor9ing off ?

[Naresh Kumar]

The problem is due to the Virus Protection features in Outlook Express 6.

To resolve the problem,disable the Virus Protection feature in Outlook
Express. By doing this, you can get rid of the message.
To disable the feature, visit the following Microsoft site for instructions:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q291/3/87.asp

NaresH KumaR

"Hy Corwin" > wrote in message
...
> On occasion Outlook Express will not allow an attachment
> to be opened.The notice reads"Removed access to the
> \following unsafe attachments in your mail " The
> attachment was a picture of a bird.How do I turn this
> censor9ing off ?

[Bruce Chambers]

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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"Hy Corwin" > wrote in message
...
> On occasion Outlook Express will not allow an attachment
> to be opened.The notice reads"Removed access to the
> \following unsafe attachments in your mail " The
> attachment was a picture of a bird.How do I turn this
> censor9ing off ?