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Outlook blocks access to attachment
Name: Paul Daigneault Date: December 22, 2003 at 05:07:46 Pacific OS: Windows ME CPU/Ram: 1.2GhZ/256 Megs
Comment:
When I checked my email today, I had mail from my sister-in-law sending me a file called xmas card.exe. Outlook, in all its wissdom, decided I shouldn't be looking at this and blocked access.. The message read: "Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachment: xmas card.exe"
The same thing used to happen in Outlook Express and I got so royally peed-off I switched to Outlook - that was about a year ago. Today was the first time Outlook decided to be a guardian of my morales.
There must be a setting some where that I can change to prevent this. I have Norton to watch for viruses.
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