How to Determine When Outlook Express Has Blocked an Attachment

While working with emails, a user must be cautious about virus contamination, as emails are the easiest way for viruses to enter into any computer system. However, with increasing cases of email viruses, most of the email applications have embedded with virus protection features. Outlook Express 6 is also one of those email clients that provide the user with various virus protection features, so that their email data and computer may stay safe from email viruses.

In Outlook Express these virus protection features are available:

• Internet Explorer Security Zone to Disable Active Content in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) E-mail.

• Facility to read all Messages in Plain Text with Service Pack 1.

• Features to prevent Programs from Sending E-mail without your approval.

• Facility to use Internet Explorer Unsafe File List to Filter E-mail Attachments.

• Blocking of virus suspected attachments .

Among all these features Blocking of virus suspected attachments is the feature that works automatically when any suspected attachment is received by the user. Determining that any attachment is blocked by Outlook Express is necessary to prevent virus corruption. When an attachment is blocked by Outlook Express, following alert is displayed in the message alert bar at the top of the e-mail message:

Outlook Express removed access to the following unsafe attachments in your mail: file_name1, file_name2, and so on.

Whenever, you see this alert with any email message, do not try to open the attachment. This way you can prevent your Outlook Express from getting corrupted by viruses.

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