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John
December 5th 03, 01:42 AM
>-----Original Message-----
>I recently had my Hard drive replaced and lost
everything
>on the old one, so within the last few days I have put
>back all of my old programs including the XP upgrade
from
>ME. IN my Outlook Express many of my e-mails that are
to
>contain attachments are being stopped my Outlook
>Express. It shows that the mail has an attachment, but
>where the paper clip usually is on the e-mail, it
>says "OE removed access to the following unsafe
>attachments in you mail:" followed by the name of the
>attachment. The paper clip is still there, however, it
>will not let me open it at all. OE never did this
before
>I had the drive replaced so I know I must be doing
>something wrong. Can anyone please assist me in either
>finding out why its doing this, or, how to stop it from
>doing this alltogether? THanks so much in advance.
>Please e-mail me the answer since I rarely check this
>group.
>.


Hi. Open Outlook Express; go to 'tools'(drop-
down), 'options', 'security' tab and uncheck "Do not
allow attachments to be saved or opened that could be a
virus." Your anti-virus program for your computer takes
care of all that anyway.

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