Re: Marked as Attachment, but no attachment

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techforce wrote:
> Have been getting emails recently that show in the preview pane as
> having an attachment on the top window, but when you view the actual
> message in the lower preview pane, no attachment shows up.
>
> I went into options, security, and unchecked the box, but no
> difference. If someone sends a photo or file as attachment, seems to
> be ok. My AV program ads text to the bottom of every mail certifying
> it viri free, and I thought that was being seen as an attachment, but
> its consistently in every mail recieved, and its not marked as an
> attachment all the time, so I dont believe thats it. I am running a
> new Viri scan, so far there are 20 some odd infections, and we are
> not even half way done yet.
>
> This is a 3 day old system with fresh install of XP. I migrated files
> and settings from the other system which was badly infected with non
> removable spyware, and it looks like some .exe files were infected on
> the old XP OS because if I run them on the new installed OS, they
> give memory errors. So I have reinstalled these fresh as need
> be.....but still something seems amiss in a bad way security wise
> because I dont remember XP and outlook ever behaving so
> strangely...especially on a 3 day old install. I do run MS anti spy,
> and another anti spyware I pay a subscription for. Any input or
> comments appreciated.

If you have OE set to read all messages in plain text and someone sends
in HTML, then it looks as though there is an attachment. In fact it's a
direct "copy" of the mail you are already seeing.

--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)

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