Feeling frustrated about this important email with a known attachment from someone in my Outlook inbox. Outlook just would not let me download the attachment! It says:
"Access to the following potentially unsafe attachments has been blocked: filename"
I have done google searches and tried everything from going into regedit to downloading additional software that's meant to unblock the file type I need, but alas, no success.
Personally, I find this very silly of Microsoft to block file types for security reasons and not allow the user to enable them...because the user may know the sender!
Can anyone please help me? The file type attached is XML, but the sender also sent me a TXT version - both are blocked by Outlook. I believe im using Outlook 2003.
Although that would work and is a good idea (I use Thunderbird myself), it still lacks many features present in MS Outlook.
I actually partly agree with Microsoft here, although this is probably a bit extreem. Perhaps they should block all executables by default but the settings can be changed so you are presented with a warning rather than an outright ban.
Although that would work and is a good idea (I use Thunderbird myself), it still lacks many features present in MS Outlook.
I actually partly agree with Microsoft here, although this is probably a bit extreem. Perhaps they should block all executables by default but the settings can be changed so you are presented with a warning rather than an outright ban.
Yes I agree on this, bit extreme I think. But they obviously feel the scale of the threat (viruses being spread through certain file types) justifies the disabling of these file types.
I got the file at the end though, it was zipped over.
I understand. How about this. Get two email addresses use one with Outlook for all its cool features. Use the second one when Outlook throws up a roadblock. Above all don't ever publish or release the second address except to folks you actually want to hear from. I've had a second address since last summer and the dropoff in spam is incredible!