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christineredgate
Winner of the Copeland Wildlife Photographer of th
I have a mega problem with attachments as I mentioned yesterday,when people sent me some pics via e-mail.Our O/E and Norton between them seem to refuse to allow any attachments to be opened,but I can download pictures from the gallery here,no problem.
I wonder if anyone has the answer as to why this happens.
Christine.
I wonder if anyone has the answer as to why this happens.
Christine.
Niall
Registered User
Paj,
On your user options, for this forum, have you disabled "Images" from the Post Elements. If so enable it, and don't worry we all do that sort of thing from time to time.
If not the below may apply.
Zone Alarm pro does come with ad blocking, though I thought it put in a caption for blocked ads....
From the client side of things the mechanism used for gallery and embeded pictures appears to be much the same, so I would doubt it is IE or Win2K, the source URL is different though so it could be an ad blocker which is mistaking one but not the other for an ad.
Though it will make pages you visit on a regular basis slower to load for the next visit it may be worth going to Tools -> Internet Options, then on the General tab clicking the "Delete Files" button in the middle of the form, in the box that says Temporary Internet Files. Then close IE reopen it and try viewing a message with an attachment.
NB do the Delete Files bit when looking at another web page.
It could be that IE has cached an iffy version of the attachment URL page.
On your user options, for this forum, have you disabled "Images" from the Post Elements. If so enable it, and don't worry we all do that sort of thing from time to time.
If not the below may apply.
paj said:
Zone Alarm pro does come with ad blocking, though I thought it put in a caption for blocked ads....
paj said:
From the client side of things the mechanism used for gallery and embeded pictures appears to be much the same, so I would doubt it is IE or Win2K, the source URL is different though so it could be an ad blocker which is mistaking one but not the other for an ad.
Though it will make pages you visit on a regular basis slower to load for the next visit it may be worth going to Tools -> Internet Options, then on the General tab clicking the "Delete Files" button in the middle of the form, in the box that says Temporary Internet Files. Then close IE reopen it and try viewing a message with an attachment.
NB do the Delete Files bit when looking at another web page.
It could be that IE has cached an iffy version of the attachment URL page.
digi-birder
Well-known member
christineredgat said:
I am thinking that you may have recently downloaded some security updates from Microsoft?? If so the updates may have turned off the attachment facility. I presume you could open and read attachments before?
Open Outlook Express and go to Tools > Options.
Select the Security tab.
In the top section there is a box and the text: Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened, etc.
Make sure there is not a tick in this box.
christineredgate
Winner of the Copeland Wildlife Photographer of th
Diane,thankyou. Yes i found the box,it actually said "not to open attachments etc which may contain a virus" but the computer cannot really tell which is which ,can it,or can it anyway I have unticked the box.digi-birder said:
Christine.
digi-birder
Well-known member
christineredgat said:
It's just a 'belt and braces' setting in Outlook Express that prevents the viewing of attachments so that an unsuspecting user cannot click on them to open them and potentially spread a virus.
The only way to detect a virus is to use a virus checking programme - or don't use email!
I take it you can now see your attachments?
christineredgate
Winner of the Copeland Wildlife Photographer of th
Diane thanks for 2cnd message re "belts and braces".I seemed to have reached the thread before your reply.I haven't received any attachments as yet,but I'll send one over to Barry's half of the pc and see what happens.Everything changed after "wormblaster".It hit South Cumbria quite badly and our pc guy came and fiddled with things,and hence,yes since then all attachments seem to have been barred.
Christine.
Christine.
digi-birder
Well-known member
Don't you still have some of the old messages in your inbox with attachments you can take a look at?
christineredgate
Winner of the Copeland Wildlife Photographer of th
No,Diane ,I cleared everything as it would not open.But Iv,e just sent Barry a microsoft word document and I was able to open it,although I could not access the doc from Outlook,I perhaps need to save it somewhere,but it opened straight away on his screen ,but then again it was not from Outlook,although I did have to go on line to send it.
Complicated!!.but thanks again Diane ,it looks as though the problem is solved.
Complicated!!.but thanks again Diane ,it looks as though the problem is solved.
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