Attachment problem

[Maggic]

First of all apologies if this post is in the wrong group. I have Outlook
Express, but cannot find a newsgroup for it, so am posting my problem here
hoping to get some help.

I recently upgraded to Outlook express 6 and am having a problem sending
attachments. OE keeps telling me that my attachment e.g. an exe file has a
virus and therefore will not send it. My system is virus free. I tried to
see if there was an option to disable OE from checking for a virus but
couldn't find an such an option. I use Norton Anti Virus and so do not need
OE also checking.

Any help would be much appreciated and again apologies for posting here.

Maggic

 

[Maggic]

Please ignore this query .. found my answer through a search of Google ..
apologies again .. Maggic

 

[ArnoldoT]

Well...

Outlook Express has that thing...

is not that you file has a virus, but it could be a virus
it-self... by "polite rule" you do not send files with
EXE as extention... since if the recipient runs the file
they would have their pc messed up if that was a
virus/trojan/bug...

In fact, some OE would not even accept a file with that
extention... (any many others that could be potentialy
dangerous for your system)

The only thing you can do is to edit the register
(regedit) and i do not recommend for you to do that if
you are not sure about how to work with regedit.

 

[Rifleman]

Please ignore this query .. found my answer through a search of Google ..
apologies again .. Maggic

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