Outlook Express and removes attachments 1

[EonSpeed]

I've just switched to XP Home and Outlook Express removes attachments from Email. For example I have sent an email to a friend using Hotmail and then in my OE Sent Items Box it has my sent messages with a statement:
"OE has removed access to the following unsafe attachments in your mail:....."
Does this affect only me sending mail to myself and looking at my sent items? or does it affect all Outlook Express users that I would send mail to? And can I turn it off?

By the way when I sent attachments to my friend with hotmail he was able to open them just fine.

 

[Xemus]

This is a built-in security feature of Outlook Express. It removes access to most attachments and can't be turned off (if you turn it off, you need to be REALLY careful about what you open).
Tools -> Options -> Security Tab "Do Not Allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially contain a virus".
This setting will only affect your computer's ability to open the attachments. Any mail sent to other computers will be dealt with depending on their settings.

http://www.closedsocket.com

 

[EonSpeed]

Thanks Xemus I thought that was the case but I wanted to be sure.

Funny thing is that if I send the attachments to my hotmail then open them using hotmail they are scanned by hotmail for viruses and then I close my hotmail and open my outlook and I have access to the attachments I opened in hotmail.

Thats silly. Outlook should come with scanning functions if it accepts the scans of hotmail.

 

[Stumpy02000]

In outlook explorer, it is NOT a virus scanner function. It is primarily used as an administrative tool that we use to block the users from receiving and accepting attachments from outside sources. It is pefectly safe to disable this function if you have third party virus scanning software to detect viruses that may be in the email.
It blocks them by usage of an "exception list". There is a method of accessing the list and removing certain extensions and adding others which gives it some semblence of a value if for instance you do not want a user to receive ANY .exe files, but dont really mind if they get .jpg files as long as they only have the photo viewers that we have checked and confirmed will not allow embedded files to activate.