Wrong - that setting only works for Outlook Express, which this group does
not support. Learn the difference.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.
After furious head scratching, Chuck Davis asked:
|| -----Original Message-----
|| This is not a problem more of an observation and a hope of
| a change...
||
|| I had purchased a price of software from a well-known company which
|| was sent to me by e-mail. The software was sent as an ".exe" file
|| and was wholly valid and virus-free. As you have probably guessed,
|| Outlook blocked the attachment.
||
|| Now, I have been able to get the software by other means
| so I don't have
|| a problem in this instance, but I was concerned at the unilateral way
|| that Microsoft handles decisions on behalf of the users of their
|| software ("nothing new", I hear some of you cry). I would have
|| expected Outlook to have stored the blocked attachments in a
|| quarantine folder (or the like) and allow the user to take the final
| decision as to
|| whether to delete it or open it at their own risk.
| However, as far as I
|| can see, this doesn't happen.
||
|| The only other option would be for me to prevent Outlook from
|| blocking ".exe" files, which would lead to my PC being opened to
|| potential attack - the very act that they are trying to avoid.
||
|| I don't think that MS should take decisions on behalf of users in
|| this way and I would hope that they would review this blocking
|| policy to one of placing attachments into a secure (password
|| protected,
| if necessary)
|| folder for the user to choose to delete on mass, delete files
|| individually or to save to another location (with all the risks that
|| suggests).
||
|| I think we've grown up with MS taking inappropriate decisions on our
|| behalf....
||
|| Martin
||
||
||
|| .
||
| Martin,
| Microsoft may have provided you with the option. Tools>
| Options> Click on the Security tab. Under Download
| Pictures, click on Change Automatic download settings.
| Change the options to suit your needs.
