Why does Outlook 2000 filter out safe attachments in emails ?

[Jerry]

Since Apr.23 I can't send/forward emails with .PPS , .EXE or .WAV files ?
The messages try's to send then it stops and a yellow bar says "Outlook
remove the Potentional attachment as a possible virus ? It does send to the
sender about 4 pages of jibberjish letters & numbers ? I've used Outlook
2000 for 8 years and this is the first time for me. Help anyone ???

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Um... since like June 2000, outlook has blocked those extensions.
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm

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Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



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[Jerry]

Like they've always worked until Apr.23,2006 ? Why all of a sudden did it
stop forwarding/sending my different attachments ? mainly jokes etc.......

Um... since like June 2000, outlook has blocked those extensions.
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



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Since Apr.23 I can't send/forward emails with .PPS , .EXE or .WAV files ?
The messages try's to send then it stops and a yellow bar says "Outlook
remove the Potentional attachment as a possible virus ? It does send to
the
sender about 4 pages of jibberjish letters & numbers ? I've used Outlook
2000 for 8 years and this is the first time for me. Help anyone ???

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

did you change the encoding or message format on April 23?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



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Like they've always worked until Apr.23,2006 ? Why all of a sudden did it
stop forwarding/sending my different attachments ? mainly jokes etc.......

Um... since like June 2000, outlook has blocked those extensions.
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



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Since Apr.23 I can't send/forward emails with .PPS , .EXE or .WAV
files ?
The messages try's to send then it stops and a yellow bar says "Outlook
remove the Potentional attachment as a possible virus ? It does send to
the
sender about 4 pages of jibberjish letters & numbers ? I've used
Outlook
2000 for 8 years and this is the first time for me. Help anyone ???

 

[Jerry]

I can't remember...........I tried changing the mail format from HTML to
plain txt and the rich text but same results. I believe I did change a Active
X from prompt to enable but I never wrote down which one ? I went to
Microsoft updates and viewed the updates they downloaded on my computer and
didn't see anything about Outlook Security issues? Your slipstick site looks
good and on one site there it mention going to the registry and adding a
"Level1remove" under 9.0, Security, but it didn't help.

did you change the encoding or message format on April 23?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
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Like they've always worked until Apr.23,2006 ? Why all of a sudden did it
stop forwarding/sending my different attachments ? mainly jokes etc.......

Um... since like June 2000, outlook has blocked those extensions.
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



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Since Apr.23 I can't send/forward emails with .PPS , .EXE or .WAV
files ?
The messages try's to send then it stops and a yellow bar says "Outlook
remove the Potentional attachment as a possible virus ? It does send to
the
sender about 4 pages of jibberjish letters & numbers ? I've used
Outlook
2000 for 8 years and this is the first time for me. Help anyone ???

 

[Jerry]

did you change the encoding or message format on April 23?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
(e-mail address removed)

Like they've always worked until Apr.23,2006 ? Why all of a sudden did it
stop forwarding/sending my different attachments ? mainly jokes etc.......

Um... since like June 2000, outlook has blocked those extensions.
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
(e-mail address removed)


Since Apr.23 I can't send/forward emails with .PPS , .EXE or .WAV
files ?
The messages try's to send then it stops and a yellow bar says "Outlook
remove the Potentional attachment as a possible virus ? It does send to
the
sender about 4 pages of jibberjish letters & numbers ? I've used
Outlook
2000 for 8 years and this is the first time for me. Help anyone ???

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

it's not a problem level1remove will solve - it will end the infobar message
but that is not why there is gibberish - it's either uuencoding or RTF
format/winmail dat. Are you sure the problem isn't with a setting on the
recipients end? if the mail server is messed up, the attachment can be
gibberish in the message body too.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
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I can't remember...........I tried changing the mail format from HTML to
plain txt and the rich text but same results. I believe I did change a
Active
X from prompt to enable but I never wrote down which one ? I went to
Microsoft updates and viewed the updates they downloaded on my computer
and
didn't see anything about Outlook Security issues? Your slipstick site
looks
good and on one site there it mention going to the registry and adding a
"Level1remove" under 9.0, Security, but it didn't help.

did you change the encoding or message format on April 23?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
(e-mail address removed)

Like they've always worked until Apr.23,2006 ? Why all of a sudden did
it
stop forwarding/sending my different attachments ? mainly jokes
etc.......

:

Um... since like June 2000, outlook has blocked those extensions.
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
(e-mail address removed)


Since Apr.23 I can't send/forward emails with .PPS , .EXE or .WAV
files ?
The messages try's to send then it stops and a yellow bar says
"Outlook
remove the Potentional attachment as a possible virus ? It does send
to
the
sender about 4 pages of jibberjish letters & numbers ? I've used
Outlook
2000 for 8 years and this is the first time for me. Help anyone ???

 

[Jerry]

I will call my server ( att/yahoo).But it my be a few days before I get time
to do this . I'm having surgery on my knee in about 6 hours. I spent about 6
hours on the phone with them last week and they diagnois the problem as
Outlook. The accent of their tech.reps is bad to understand. Thanks for the
suggestions and I'll be in touch later.

Jerry

it's not a problem level1remove will solve - it will end the infobar message
but that is not why there is gibberish - it's either uuencoding or RTF
format/winmail dat. Are you sure the problem isn't with a setting on the
recipients end? if the mail server is messed up, the attachment can be
gibberish in the message body too.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
(e-mail address removed)

I can't remember...........I tried changing the mail format from HTML to
plain txt and the rich text but same results. I believe I did change a
Active
X from prompt to enable but I never wrote down which one ? I went to
Microsoft updates and viewed the updates they downloaded on my computer
and
didn't see anything about Outlook Security issues? Your slipstick site
looks
good and on one site there it mention going to the registry and adding a
"Level1remove" under 9.0, Security, but it didn't help.

did you change the encoding or message format on April 23?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
(e-mail address removed)


Like they've always worked until Apr.23,2006 ? Why all of a sudden did
it
stop forwarding/sending my different attachments ? mainly jokes
etc.......

:

Um... since like June 2000, outlook has blocked those extensions.
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/



Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
(e-mail address removed)


Since Apr.23 I can't send/forward emails with .PPS , .EXE or .WAV
files ?
The messages try's to send then it stops and a yellow bar says
"Outlook
remove the Potentional attachment as a possible virus ? It does send
to
the
sender about 4 pages of jibberjish letters & numbers ? I've used
Outlook
2000 for 8 years and this is the first time for me. Help anyone ???