Re: outlook express blocks access to email attchments

From: n betts (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/02/04 

Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 03:05:42 -0800

>-----Original Message-----
>Yes it did, and the reason is the high number of worms
and viruses that are
>spread by email attachments that may even appear to come
form a trusted
>source as these worms send out emails based on users it
finds in the address
>book of an infected computer. It is easy to change the
configuration back to
>the old way, but be sure to be using a quality virus scan
program that scans
>all emails and keep it up to date - automatically if
possible. --- Steve
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5bLN%
5d;Q329570
>http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
>
>"david" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:80ef01c3e90b$93d4e160$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> after upgrading to IE6, can no longer access any e-mail
>> attachments received in outlook express. Did the upgrade
>> reset some security feature, or is there some security
>> flaw in the software?
>
you say its easy to change the configeration back to the
old way but how
>
>.
>

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