Database blocked by Outlook

[Phil Lefter]

I have a database I need to send to my home pc at times. Whenever I send the
raw file, I get a message stating the attachment was blocked by Outlook
because of potential viruses in such files. The only way I have found to
beat it is to send the database as a zip file. What do I need to do to
correct this problem? Pls advise, Phil

 

[Mike Painter]

I have a database I need to send to my home pc at times. Whenever I
send the raw file, I get a message stating the attachment was blocked
by Outlook because of potential viruses in such files. The only way I
have found to beat it is to send the database as a zip file. What do
I need to do to correct this problem? Pls advise, Phil

There is a knowledgebase article on this. It involves making registry
changes.
I just have people rename the extension to solve the problem.

 

[Tom Wickerath]

Hi Phil,

Outlook has a built-in security feature, that I call the "file whacker",
which will make so-called "potentially unsafe" file attachments unavailable,
if you receive a message from another person with such an attached file. It
turns out that .mdb files are included on the hit list. To get around this
issue, you need to make a change to your registry setting, by adding a new
key named "Level1Remove" (without the quotes), as discussed in this KB
article:

Cannot open attachments in Microsoft Outlook
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=829982


This article includes the following notes, so it may not work for you:

You can modify the attachment security behavior in Outlook if you are using
Outlook in one of the following scenarios:

You are not using Outlook in an Exchange environment.

In an Exchange environment, the administrator has not configured the Outlook
Security settings to disallow changes to the attachment security behavior.


Tom
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I have a database I need to send to my home pc at times. Whenever I send the
raw file, I get a message stating the attachment was blocked by Outlook
because of potential viruses in such files. The only way I have found to
beat it is to send the database as a zip file. What do I need to do to
correct this problem? Pls advise, Phil

 

[Mohamed Shafiee]

Send it in a .rar file

It works.

 

[Tom Wickerath]

As the OP noted, sending in a compressed format (.zip) works. WinRar is
simply an alternative to WinZip. In some cases, it even seems to achieve
better compression ratios than WinZip. Unfortunately for WinRar, to date it
hasn't achieved a critical mass in market share. I wish it would, because
this might force the folks at WinZip to enhance their utility so that it can
decompress .rar files.

As Mike Painter pointed out, you can simply change the file extension to
some extension that is not included in the KB 829982 whack list. You can also
just delete the extension. Then, the receipient simply has to restore the
correct extension when extracting the file from the e-mail message.
Apparently the OP was looking for a method that didn't involve first zipping
the file (since he was aware that this works).

Tom
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Send it in a .rar file

It works.
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I have a database I need to send to my home pc at times. Whenever I send the
raw file, I get a message stating the attachment was blocked by Outlook
because of potential viruses in such files. The only way I have found to beat
it is to send the database as a zip file. What do I need to do to correct
this problem?

Pls advise, Phil

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

The others are right, but it is easy to get around. Just change the
file extension from mdb to mdx or whatever. and then change it back at
home.

On the other hand, since MDBs compress so well when zipped (unless they've
been encrypted), zipping is probably the best option.

 

[Synkro]

I have a database I need to send to my home pc at times. Whenever I
send the raw file, I get a message stating the attachment was blocked
by Outlook because of potential viruses in such files. The only way I
have found to beat it is to send the database as a zip file. What do I
need to do to correct this problem? Pls advise, Phil

Start the registry editor by pressing the Start button, Run, typing regedit and pressing
OK.
In Registry Editor, expand, in turn:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Software
Microsoft
Office
11.0 (Office 2003. For Office XP, expand
"10.0")
Outlook
Expand each entry by clicking on the boxed plus sign to it's left. If that's a boxed minus
sign, then it's already expanded.
Now click on the Security entry.
On Registry Editor's menu bar, select Edit, New, and String Value.
Replace the default name of "New Value #1" with "Level1Remove".
Right-click on Level1Remove and select Modify.
Enter the list of file extensions that you want to gain access to. The list is semi-colon
separated. For example if you wanted to allow access to both ".url" and ".exe" files, then
you would enter ".url;.exe".
Exit Registry Editor, and you're done. You may need to restart Outlook if it was running
while you were doing this.

 

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dededede

There are also a couple of "add in" programs that add an entry on the
tools,options section which allows you choose which extensions to allow.
this is much easier than editing the registry. I did a google search and
found them.
By the way, this occured because of the latest security update of office.