Question about an e-mail

[Stealth_Sniper]

I just recieved a file from my aunt, it's a picture file and there is a highlighted box at the top that says... "OE removed access to the following unsafe attachments... what does that mean?

[John Prophet]

means you have IE6 and OE6 and by default it wont let you open attachments.

Its a good safety device.

You can change it by clicking, in OE, "tools..options..security" then unchecking "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened blah blah"

Usually if I trust the source, I uncheck it...open the attachment...then I recheck it..for safety sake.

after you uncheck it you may have to close that email then re-open it to open the attachment.

JP

[Stealth_Sniper]

Hey, thanks a lot JP

[omalleytrading]

I could be wrong, but Outlook (or Express) shouldn't block an attachment that's just a picture. Are you sure it's not something like Grandma.jpg.exe or Grandma.jpg.vbs??? That's a common trick to fool people into opening up a virus....

[Starfury_2260]

yes it could very well be a virus that either someone sent pretending to be his aunt (not very likely) or his aunt has gotten a virus that spreads by sending emails like this.

[Martoch]

Originally posted by omalleytrading
I could be wrong, but Outlook (or Express) shouldn't block an attachment that's just a picture. Are you sure it's not something like Grandma.jpg.exe or Grandma.jpg.vbs??? That's a common trick to fool people into opening up a virus....

That's what I was thinking...I've never had to uncheck any options to allow pictures through. Hmmm...can you post up a screenshot of the attachment?

[John Prophet]

I am under the impression it does block pics...maybe you guys have it set to let everything thru.

I have a few emails in my inbox...one with a .gif attached and one with a .png image file...both got blocked.

[Prison Kids]

My mother's machine blocked images as well. Changed the attachment setting and no problems.

[Starfury_2260]

it's kinda hard to set it to block certain things in OE since there is only one setting for it and that's on or off. outlook seems to have just a setting for high or no attachment security.

[Stealth_Sniper]

I changed the attachments settings, and it seems to be working fine. Just some minor details I overlooked when setting it up.