Attachments in outlook express

I recently started using Outlook Express, but cannot open
any attachments. I get "OE removed the following unsafe
attachments in your e-mail" I get this on every
attachment. Help!

Cannot Open E-Mail Attachments in Outlook Express After You Install SP1
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Carey Frisch
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Windows XP - Shell/User

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"Regina" wrote in message:
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I recently started using Outlook Express, but cannot open
any attachments. I get "OE removed the following unsafe
attachments in your e-mail" I get this on every
attachment. Help!

In outlook express: tools, options, security tab, uncheck: do not allow
attachments....
"Regina" wrote in message
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I recently started using Outlook Express, but cannot open
any attachments. I get "OE removed the following unsafe
attachments in your e-mail" I get this on every
attachment. Help!

Click Tools, Options, Security tab. Uncheck the option "Do not allow =
attachments to be saved or opened..."

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Regina typed:

I recently started using Outlook Express, but cannot open
any attachments. I get "OE removed the following unsafe
attachments in your e-mail" I get this on every
attachment. Help!


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..."

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