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I'm Over-attached
It seems that every email (OE) in my Inbox, Sent Items, AND mail I send
shows an attachment clip, which shows the Explorer logo and an attachment identifier, which doesn't open up, but, as I said appears on all my mail.. Any helpful ideas appreciated by this new-to-the-game user. |
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I'm Over-attached
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 18:14:55 -0500, "steve"
wrote: It seems that every email (OE) in my Inbox, Sent Items, AND mail I send shows an attachment clip, which shows the Explorer logo and an attachment identifier, which doesn't open up, but, as I said appears on all my mail.. Any helpful ideas appreciated by this new-to-the-game user. If the blue e is representing html files, you could change your settings in OE to display mail you read in html (or same manner as sent). However risks are involved with that change - embedded scripts, requests for images from websites that confirm your address for spammers, etc. Using the Plain Text setting is safer. You *should* still be able to pick out the message from the text form of the html. No need to open the attached files unless you want to. It's perfectly acceptable to ignore them too. Caution advised on opening files from anyone. Even a friend could have a virus, not know about it and their email is sending stuff out behind their back. If still wanting to open a file, save it to the hard drive and scan it with your antivirus program *before* opening! The setting to allow attachments to be opened, saved or blocked in OE is in the Tools Options menus under Security. Sharon F MS MVP [Shell/User] |
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 18:14:55 -0500, "steve"
wrote: It seems that every email (OE) in my Inbox, Sent Items, AND mail I send shows an attachment clip, which shows the Explorer logo and an attachment identifier, which doesn't open up, but, as I said appears on all my mail.. Any helpful ideas appreciated by this new-to-the-game user. If the blue e is representing html files, you could change your settings in OE to display mail you read in html (or same manner as sent). However risks are involved with that change - embedded scripts, requests for images from websites that confirm your address for spammers, etc. Using the Plain Text setting is safer. You *should* still be able to pick out the message from the text form of the html. No need to open the attached files unless you want to. It's perfectly acceptable to ignore them too. Caution advised on opening files from anyone. Even a friend could have a virus, not know about it and their email is sending stuff out behind their back. If still wanting to open a file, save it to the hard drive and scan it with your antivirus program *before* opening! The setting to allow attachments to be opened, saved or blocked in OE is in the Tools Options menus under Security. Sharon F MS MVP [Shell/User] |
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-----Original Message----- On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 18:14:55 -0500, "steve" wrote: It seems that every email (OE) in my Inbox, Sent Items, AND mail I send shows an attachment clip, which shows the Explorer logo and an attachment identifier, which doesn't open up, but, as I said appears on all my mail.. Any helpful ideas appreciated by this new-to-the-game user. If the blue e is representing html files, you could change your settings in OE to display mail you read in html (or same manner as sent). However risks are involved with that change - embedded scripts, requests for images from websites that confirm your address for spammers, etc. Using the Plain Text setting is safer. You *should* still be able to pick out the message from the text form of the html. No need to open the attached files unless you want to. It's perfectly acceptable to ignore them too. Caution advised on opening files from anyone. Even a friend could have a virus, not know about it and their email is sending stuff out behind their back. If still wanting to open a file, save it to the hard drive and scan it with your antivirus program *before* opening! The setting to allow attachments to be opened, saved or blocked in OE is in the Tools Options menus under Security. Sharon F MS MVP [Shell/User] . What I would do FIRST is scan the whole computer system with my Anti-virus Program (E-mails, all files of any type, the entire hard drive(s))[I hope you have a good one such as Norton]; Set the Anti-Virus Program to check all E- mail, both inbound and outbound, as it occurs. If there is a known Virus in the stuff (Attachments or E-mail content), it will be intercepted and deleted. NEVER open an attachment, even then, that you have any reason to suspect; from friend or foe. SECOND: Close all open programs and then; click RUN/ type sfc /scannow in the box and click OK (if first you want to know what the Command Prompt sfc /scannow will do before you try it, then click RUN/then type sfc /scannow /? and click OK. Basically it checks all Windows Programs to see that they meet Microsoft specs and, if they do not, restores them or repairs them. THIRD: Type Spybot; Search & Destroy in your search engine and when you find a site, download and install it [it is free]. Then scan your entire system with. You will be shocked at the spyware and phone-home stuff you have implanted in your system. AdAware 6 from Lavasoft is a less through program, but the basic version is free. Hope this does the job for you. By the way, if you cannot locate a Spybot source, say so in an E-mail and I will send it to you. Gene |
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-----Original Message----- On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 18:14:55 -0500, "steve" wrote: It seems that every email (OE) in my Inbox, Sent Items, AND mail I send shows an attachment clip, which shows the Explorer logo and an attachment identifier, which doesn't open up, but, as I said appears on all my mail.. Any helpful ideas appreciated by this new-to-the-game user. If the blue e is representing html files, you could change your settings in OE to display mail you read in html (or same manner as sent). However risks are involved with that change - embedded scripts, requests for images from websites that confirm your address for spammers, etc. Using the Plain Text setting is safer. You *should* still be able to pick out the message from the text form of the html. No need to open the attached files unless you want to. It's perfectly acceptable to ignore them too. Caution advised on opening files from anyone. Even a friend could have a virus, not know about it and their email is sending stuff out behind their back. If still wanting to open a file, save it to the hard drive and scan it with your antivirus program *before* opening! The setting to allow attachments to be opened, saved or blocked in OE is in the Tools Options menus under Security. Sharon F MS MVP [Shell/User] . What I would do FIRST is scan the whole computer system with my Anti-virus Program (E-mails, all files of any type, the entire hard drive(s))[I hope you have a good one such as Norton]; Set the Anti-Virus Program to check all E- mail, both inbound and outbound, as it occurs. If there is a known Virus in the stuff (Attachments or E-mail content), it will be intercepted and deleted. NEVER open an attachment, even then, that you have any reason to suspect; from friend or foe. SECOND: Close all open programs and then; click RUN/ type sfc /scannow in the box and click OK (if first you want to know what the Command Prompt sfc /scannow will do before you try it, then click RUN/then type sfc /scannow /? and click OK. Basically it checks all Windows Programs to see that they meet Microsoft specs and, if they do not, restores them or repairs them. THIRD: Type Spybot; Search & Destroy in your search engine and when you find a site, download and install it [it is free]. Then scan your entire system with. You will be shocked at the spyware and phone-home stuff you have implanted in your system. AdAware 6 from Lavasoft is a less through program, but the basic version is free. Hope this does the job for you. By the way, if you cannot locate a Spybot source, say so in an E-mail and I will send it to you. Gene |
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