Re: Access to Attachments Prevented - Can't Get Feature Disabled

From: Bruce Hagen (Nospam_at_mymail.invalid)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:58:22 -0700

He stated that the box is grayed out and cannot uncheck it. 

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Bruce Hagen
   ~IB-CA~
"John Clifford Hole" <john.hole89@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:OWhj8jTWEHA.3740@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
Eddie,
Posted to newsgroup and emailed directly to the poster of the message
that this is a reply to.
See if this helps.
Load up Outlook Express and click on Tools/Options/Security and see
if you've got a tick against "Do not allow attachments to be saved or
opened that could potentially be a virus."
If you have then uncheck this box and you should get access to all
attachments.
Before you do this,of course,make sure that you have installed,and
keep up-to-date,a good virus checker program.
You might also find this useful.
Load up Outlook Express and remove,if it's there,the tick against
'When Outlook Express starts, go directly to my Inbox' .
Click on INBOX then right-click an empty bit of the TOOLBAR and click
on CUSTOMIZE and find the icon called PREVIEW and double-click it to
add it to the TOOLBAR.
When you've done this you can click on the PREVIEW icon to turn on or
turn off the PREVIEW PANE.
You can then turn it off,before you go on-line,and let all your
emails download then delete any that look 'suspicious' - without them
being opened when you click on their headers to highlight them before
deleting them - then turn it back on to view the rest of them.
If you're still not sure about any of the 'safe' ones then - with the
Preview Pane still turned off - you can right-click the header and
then click PROPERTIES/DETAILS/MESSAGE SOURCE and see what the email
contains then decide to either delete it or open it.
John Clifford Hole [MVP] of Enfield Middlesex
Eddie Stanley wrote:
> Mr Keim,
> I you get a solution to this can you please forward it to
> me as I suffer the same problem. my e mail is
> e.stanley@btinternet.com
>
> Thanks
> Eddie
>> -----Original Message-----
>> I am running OE 6.0 on a Windows XP platform.  I cannot
>> access any attachments because the "DO NOT ALLOW
>> ATTACHMENTS TO BE SAVED OR OPENED THAT COULD POTENTIALLY
>> BE A VIRUS" option is check AND greyed-out.  I cannot
>> uncheck this option because it is greyed-out.  What could
>> be causing this, and what can I do to correct this
>> problem?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> J Keim
>> .
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