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Hi all
In OE6 I thought that if you had the two boxes on the oprions-secuirty tab checked to say don't open possible virus attachments and block images/extern content you could not open ANY attachments ? You just got the yellow bar to say they have been removed. It's all working fine on my PC (ie I can open attachments) but a friend was having attachment problems and when I checked my settings I was surprized to see them checked AND still be able to open all attachments etc ? Is this because I have McAfee installed and it is 'telling' OE6 that the attachments are OK ? if I unistalled it would it suddle start blocking them all ? Thanks in advance Andrew Kennard |
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See point 1 here for how attachments are handled and see point 3 about
antivirus interfererence with OE. www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx steve "Andrew Kennard" wrote in message ... Hi all In OE6 I thought that if you had the two boxes on the oprions-secuirty tab checked to say don't open possible virus attachments and block images/extern content you could not open ANY attachments ? You just got the yellow bar to say they have been removed. It's all working fine on my PC (ie I can open attachments) but a friend was having attachment problems and when I checked my settings I was surprized to see them checked AND still be able to open all attachments etc ? Is this because I have McAfee installed and it is 'telling' OE6 that the attachments are OK ? if I unistalled it would it suddle start blocking them all ? Thanks in advance Andrew Kennard |
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Steve
Thanks for your reply I've tried turning off the AV scanning and can still open the orig email the has a jpg attachment. I've checked at ticked the JPG file type in the control panel folder options but this seems to make no difference ? Thanks Andrew "Steve Cochran" wrote in message ... See point 1 here for how attachments are handled and see point 3 about antivirus interfererence with OE. www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx steve "Andrew Kennard" wrote in message ... Hi all In OE6 I thought that if you had the two boxes on the oprions-secuirty tab checked to say don't open possible virus attachments and block images/extern content you could not open ANY attachments ? You just got the yellow bar to say they have been removed. It's all working fine on my PC (ie I can open attachments) but a friend was having attachment problems and when I checked my settings I was surprized to see them checked AND still be able to open all attachments etc ? Is this because I have McAfee installed and it is 'telling' OE6 that the attachments are OK ? if I unistalled it would it suddle start blocking them all ? Thanks in advance Andrew Kennard |
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That setting only blocks attachments "that could potentially be a
virus". That doesn't include JPG. Since you posted with XP SP2, see: Description of how the Attachment Manager works in Windows XP Service Pack 2 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=883260 Under SP1, you could select which file types OE considers dangerous. With SP2, you could change some file types from low risk to medium risk by changing the default application for them. But medium risk attachments can still be opened, you just get a warning prompt. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Andrew Kennard" wrote in message ... Steve Thanks for your reply I've tried turning off the AV scanning and can still open the orig email the has a jpg attachment. I've checked at ticked the JPG file type in the control panel folder options but this seems to make no difference ? Thanks Andrew "Steve Cochran" wrote in message ... See point 1 here for how attachments are handled and see point 3 about antivirus interfererence with OE. www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx steve "Andrew Kennard" wrote in message ... Hi all In OE6 I thought that if you had the two boxes on the oprions-secuirty tab checked to say don't open possible virus attachments and block images/extern content you could not open ANY attachments ? You just got the yellow bar to say they have been removed. It's all working fine on my PC (ie I can open attachments) but a friend was having attachment problems and when I checked my settings I was surprized to see them checked AND still be able to open all attachments etc ? Is this because I have McAfee installed and it is 'telling' OE6 that the attachments are OK ? if I unistalled it would it suddle start blocking them all ? Thanks in advance Andrew Kennard |
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Michael
Thanks very much. Thats very useful and explains alot ! ![]() Cheers Andrew "Michael Santovec" wrote in message ... That setting only blocks attachments "that could potentially be a virus". That doesn't include JPG. Since you posted with XP SP2, see: Description of how the Attachment Manager works in Windows XP Service Pack 2 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=883260 Under SP1, you could select which file types OE considers dangerous. With SP2, you could change some file types from low risk to medium risk by changing the default application for them. But medium risk attachments can still be opened, you just get a warning prompt. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Andrew Kennard" wrote in message ... Steve Thanks for your reply I've tried turning off the AV scanning and can still open the orig email the has a jpg attachment. I've checked at ticked the JPG file type in the control panel folder options but this seems to make no difference ? Thanks Andrew "Steve Cochran" wrote in message ... See point 1 here for how attachments are handled and see point 3 about antivirus interfererence with OE. www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx steve "Andrew Kennard" wrote in message ... Hi all In OE6 I thought that if you had the two boxes on the oprions-secuirty tab checked to say don't open possible virus attachments and block images/extern content you could not open ANY attachments ? You just got the yellow bar to say they have been removed. It's all working fine on my PC (ie I can open attachments) but a friend was having attachment problems and when I checked my settings I was surprized to see them checked AND still be able to open all attachments etc ? Is this because I have McAfee installed and it is 'telling' OE6 that the attachments are OK ? if I unistalled it would it suddle start blocking them all ? Thanks in advance Andrew Kennard |
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