Recieving Files from MSN that are "blocked" by Windows - RETRIEVAB

A friend of mind keeps trying to send me files over MSN, they're both mp3's
and stupid windows keeps blocking them. I'm trying to find out how to access
them and it's proving difficult. If anyone could help me that would be
fantastic

Have your friend zip the files and send them to you. When you get the files,
unzip them and listen to the music.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"~K~" wrote in message
...
A friend of mind keeps trying to send me files over MSN, they're both mp3's
and stupid windows keeps blocking them. I'm trying to find out how to
access
them and it's proving difficult. If anyone could help me that would be
fantastic

If you use Outlook Express,goto Tools- Options - Security
and uncheck "Do not allow ...." so you 'll unblock all blocked files

When you open the files,you may turn on the functions because it is more
than useful in preventing from worms/viruses infection

Panda_man


"~K~" wrote:

A friend of mind keeps trying to send me files over MSN, they're both mp3's
and stupid windows keeps blocking them. I'm trying to find out how to access
them and it's proving difficult. If anyone could help me that would be
fantastic

I have the same problem.. My question though is WHERE does windows put the
files??? I cannot seem to find them anywhere on my computer.

Please someone let me know where they go.

"~K~" wrote:

A friend of mind keeps trying to send me files over MSN, they're both mp3's
and stupid windows keeps blocking them. I'm trying to find out how to access
them and it's proving difficult. If anyone could help me that would be
fantastic

"MJ" wrote in message
...
I have the same problem.. My question though is WHERE does windows put the
files??? I cannot seem to find them anywhere on my computer.

Please someone let me know where they go.

"~K~" wrote:

A friend of mind keeps trying to send me files over MSN, they're both
mp3's
and stupid windows keeps blocking them. I'm trying to find out how to
access
them and it's proving difficult. If anyone could help me that would be
fantastic


They don't go anywhere. It's not like the files are floating out there
somewhere separate of the e-mail. Those "attachments" are INSIDE the e-mail
message as a specially encoded text section. You already have them WITHIN
the e-mail message but they are marked to be blocked. Once tagged to be
blocked, changing the Level1Remove registry key to allow them will not
unmark those attachments within any previously received e-mails. You will
need to have the sender resend those mails with those attachments.
Unblocking works on future delivered e-mails. Of course, I'm assuming that
you are talking about Outlook but then you never did mention in WHICH
application the "attachments" are getting blocked.

--
How to post:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
http://www.newsreaders.com/guide/netiquette.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/emily-postnews/part1/

I thought it was obvious (but apparently not) that "MSN" meant msn messenger
or windows messenger. None of the files I spoke of came as any sort of
attachments... they were sent files through a chat window.

"Vanguard" wrote:

"MJ" wrote in message
...
I have the same problem.. My question though is WHERE does windows put the
files??? I cannot seem to find them anywhere on my computer.

Please someone let me know where they go.

"~K~" wrote:

A friend of mind keeps trying to send me files over MSN, they're both
mp3's
and stupid windows keeps blocking them. I'm trying to find out how to
access
them and it's proving difficult. If anyone could help me that would be
fantastic


They don't go anywhere. It's not like the files are floating out there
somewhere separate of the e-mail. Those "attachments" are INSIDE the e-mail
message as a specially encoded text section. You already have them WITHIN
the e-mail message but they are marked to be blocked. Once tagged to be
blocked, changing the Level1Remove registry key to allow them will not
unmark those attachments within any previously received e-mails. You will
need to have the sender resend those mails with those attachments.
Unblocking works on future delivered e-mails. Of course, I'm assuming that
you are talking about Outlook but then you never did mention in WHICH
application the "attachments" are getting blocked.

--
How to post:
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
http://www.newsreaders.com/guide/netiquette.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/emily-postnews/part1/

~K~ wrote:
A friend of mind keeps trying to send me files over MSN, they're
both mp3's and stupid windows keeps blocking them. I'm trying to
find out how to access them and it's proving difficult. If anyone
could help me that would be fantastic

MJ wrote:
I have the same problem.. My question though is WHERE does windows
put the files??? I cannot seem to find them anywhere on my
computer.

Please someone let me know where they go.

Blocked - in MSN Messenger and other such applications - means just that -
blocked.
If they ARE getting transferred to you - then they are where you told them
to save - but if they were blocked - then you likely never received them
anyway.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

geeze you guys dont follow, the file sends, receives, and you can access it,
but when you click "OPEN" on msn messenger conversation windows, it blocks
and deletes the file. Where do they go? Or on another question, how do you
disable the blocking of files through the applications, most of us have
firewalls that do this job, and microsoft is just making our experience more
restricted.

"MJ" wrote in message
...
I thought it was obvious (but apparently not) that "MSN" meant msn
messenger
or windows messenger. None of the files I spoke of came as any sort of
attachments... they were sent files through a chat window.


MSN is both an ISP and a content provider, and that includes webmail (which
may be accessible to a local e-mail client using WebDAV if you have a paid
Hotmail account, or one that got grandfathered in before the 20-Nov-2004
cutoff date when they changed their policy).

Since you are not asking about problems with attachments in e-mails but
instead in MSN *Messenger* (which is a chat and notifier client), you might
want to target your question to the more focused community over at the
microsoft.public.msn.messenger group.

"Brian F" Brian wrote in message
...
geeze you guys dont follow, the file sends, receives, and you can access
it,
but when you click "OPEN" on msn messenger conversation windows, it blocks
and deletes the file. Where do they go? Or on another question, how do you
disable the blocking of files through the applications, most of us have
firewalls that do this job, and microsoft is just making our experience
more
restricted.



Firewalls never block based on content. They haven't a clue that some
datastream has within it some content that you want to block (or allow).
Content blocking is not what firewalls do. It is possible that you have the
ports blocked that MSN Messenger uses for file transfer. Does your
firewall, whatever it is, provide a logfile so you can check what connects
were blocked or disallowed? A Google search shows several articles on how
to block MSN ports, like
http://www.google.com/search?q=%2B%2...Bblock+%2Bport, so
you might read those to see if your firewall is blocking them.

"You can access it" yet "Open on MSN Messenger ... blocks and deletes."
Okay, so just how do you get to access the file? Are you going to wherever
you configured MSN Messenger to save Sent Files?

--
__________________________________________________
Post replies to the newsgroup. Share with others.
For e-mail: Remove "NIX" and add "#VN" to Subject.
__________________________________________________

"Leythos" wrote in message
. ..
In article ,
says...
Firewalls never block based on content. They haven't a clue that some
datastream has within it some content that you want to block (or allow).
Content blocking is not what firewalls do.

I disagree, and I've got lots of installed firewalls that BLOCK CONTENT
in the HTTP and SMTP streams.

My WatchGuard Firewalls can block attachments based on MIME TYPE, by
extension, by size of attachment, and many other CONTENT TYPES. They can
also block content from HTTP streams, keeping you from downloading a
EXE, but allowing a DOC, or removing connection information and cookies,
or blocking Active-X, or invalid headers....

While these are not "Firewall" functions, they are Proxy based services
inside most high-end firewalls designed as border devices - something
that cheap, sub-$500, units will not have.


Since the OP never bothered to mention WHICH firewall he/she uses, it is
really doubtful that they are using anything other than a "personal"
software firewall that runs on the same host that they are attempting to
protect. The [lack of] expertise shown in the question itself pretty much
indicates that this user is not running a separate host as a firewall
appliance in an enterprise-level network.

All the content interrogation you mention goes beyond what is a firewall.
Content filtering is something above and in addition to firewalling. Just
because a firewall product includes extra features doesn't mean those
features are intrinsic operations to a firewall. I can buy suites that
include a whole slew of disparate functioned programs, like anti-spam with
anti-virus with privacy protection with e-mail attachment protection and
maybe even with content filtering or censorware, but that doesn't make them
all a firewall function. When you wander off into discussing content
filtering, it certainly doesn't doesn't sound even like a firewalling
function; otherwise, you could extend even farther and include something
like Websense for content filtering but that is obviously not a firewall.
You can get products from WatchGuard that even include spam filtering and
obviously that is also not a firewalling function.

Considering the question posed by Brian, I really doubt he is using a
firewall appliance (with or without all the extra bells and whistles ABOVE
just a firewalling function). The question indicates that, at most, Brian
is using a personal firewall (and since he doesn't even mention WHICH one
then he might be using just the Windows Firewall).

--
__________________________________________________
Post replies to the newsgroup. Share with others.
For e-mail: Remove "NIX" and add "#VN" to Subject.
__________________________________________________

Ok, I've had enough of this, it needs clarifying.

MSN MESSENGER was used for a friend to send me an MP3 file, this file sends
secessfully, then, upon opening the file, WINDOWS SECURITY (sp2... ) BLOCKS
ACCESS to the file saying it is potentially unsafe. There is a link to this
Help And Supposrt Center topic "How blocking some attachments helps protect
your computer", If you read that, the link tells you HOW to access these
files, BUT! And this is where noone seems to understand our problem, The
file is not there! Windows Security deleted it, apparently!

We want our files, or else I'm getting rid of bloody windows and going back
to LINUX!

Thankyou

Actually, I have the same problem as you and I was wondering about how
to at least see those files that I've successfully downloaded with
Windows Live Messenger Beta, but are "invisible" or deleted already.
Pretty stupid.

WuFei

Screeeech wrote:
Ok, I've had enough of this, it needs clarifying.

MSN MESSENGER was used for a friend to send me an MP3 file, this file sends
secessfully, then, upon opening the file, WINDOWS SECURITY (sp2... ) BLOCKS
ACCESS to the file saying it is potentially unsafe. There is a link to this
Help And Supposrt Center topic "How blocking some attachments helps protect
your computer", If you read that, the link tells you HOW to access these
files, BUT! And this is where noone seems to understand our problem, The
file is not there! Windows Security deleted it, apparently!

We want our files, or else I'm getting rid of bloody windows and going back
to LINUX!

Thankyou

"~K~" wrote:

A friend of mind keeps trying to send me files over MSN, they're both mp3's
and stupid windows keeps blocking them. I'm trying to find out how to access
them and it's proving difficult. If anyone could help me that would be
fantastic

Doesn't anyone read these posts?

Windows is blocking these files - they have not been deleted! removed! or
altered! in any way shape or form.

Windows SP2 is blocking them as dangerous files. You are supposed to be able
to
right click the file, select properties, and uncheck the 'blocked' box. The
box don't exist just the usual 'system hidden and archive' boxes.

I have just downloaded from the EPSON website a zip file containing a video
clip of one of their products. usng firefox, windows SP2 blocks downloaded
zip files also. WINDOWS=SH*T.
Maybe someone can fix it as it is driving me mad.

***README*** To transfer using messenger rename your file to
filename.mp3.old or similar then send - when received remove the .old part
and the file will work! This simply tricks windows into believing that the
file is not an MP3 EXE ZIP or other Dangerous filetype.


"~K~" wrote:

A friend of mind keeps trying to send me files over MSN, they're both mp3's
and stupid windows keeps blocking them. I'm trying to find out how to access
them and it's proving difficult. If anyone could help me that would be
fantastic